Build a Prize-Winning Gluten-Free Gingerbread House

Here's something you can do with your kids that they'll remember for the rest of their lives. (It's an especially great idea if you expect to be housebound in a storm, or if you just want your kids -- or yourself -- to have a break from the usual frenzied routine.) Visit the Only Sometimes Clever blog and see how to make a gluten-free, casein-free, nut-free gingerbread house. As a homeschooling project, the blog’s author Karen Joy had her children bake, build and decorate (all with her help) a gingerbread house that won First Prize in their hometown’s competition!

Karen Joy posts her dough recipe and her detailed instructions for the house on her blog. She explains that the her “blueprints” came from BobVila.com. Vila offers plans for four different styles of gingerbread house: A-Frame, Colonial, Saltbox, and Side Gable.

The Only Sometimes Clever prize-winner is shown in the photo. If you make a gluten-free gingerbread house, send me a photo and I’ll post it!

_{Photo by Karen Joy. Reprinted with permission.}