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Gingerbread Train Wreck

Yesterday, I went to Costco and picked up this set (for about half the price). I love Gingerbread kits, even though the gingerbread is usually hard and stale and the candy is weak and you have to get out your hand mixer to make the icing, all while adding water. I liked this kit better than any I’ve ever used, for a few reasons:

• The slotted tray held up the pieces which was nice since my gingerbread pieces normally topple since I’m not patient enough to wait for the icing to set.
• The gingerbread is soft enough to eat. Boo-ya!
• It came with loads of candy. Tons.
• The icing is pre-mixed and bagged. All you have to do is knead the icing to the right consistency (I never got the white icing to pipe well – I sat on it, kneaded it for probably ten straight minutes and it was still chunky) and cut off the tip (couldn’t find any scissors, so I used a knife and my teeth. Not recommended for children)
• It’s not a dumb house, it’s a train. Too sweet.

Since I suck at making gingerbread anything look pretty – I decided to make a train wreck. I used the included ginger-people, dismembered them. Since I had no red icing, I made do with red candy stuck to white icing chunks. I also made the people puke the yellow icing since I couldn’t think of any other use for it. I made the cars carry candy, filling them mostly with leftover white icing and then dumping candy on top of it. I ripped off some walls of each car to mimic a destroyed train and tada, a train wreck.

Train Wreck - Aerial