The finished house will be on a 16" x 16" square of double foam board, covered with aluminum foil.
The 'plot' will contain the house, a small dog house (with black Scottish terriers - licorice), snowmen and trees, with a path.
This is not a kit - I made the pattern and the gingerbread from scratch.
All items must be edible (part of the contest rules).
The theme for the house is: SPARKLE !
Day 1: The paper model - to get the scale right. It's a little ragged, but I got the scale right, pasted on some gold and silver sparkle paper (to be replaced by pastry sprinkles on the real one), tested some candies for the path and the snowmen.
Day 2: A gingerbread prototype: to test the gingerbread recipe, to practice cutting gingerbread with from the pattern, test grating the gingerbread to get the edges straight and smooth (for gluing with royal icing).
Gingerbread out of the oven - cooling. Enough (isosceles) triangles for two pentagons, plus two equilateral triangles to join two pentagons together.
Pentagon pinned on foam board to position it - the center is raised, so it will be 3 dimensional when it's part of the house.
Day 3: Whip up a batch of royal icing and glue the parts together.
Day 4: Glitter and decorations testing......
