Done with a day left....

Great work!!! I love it. I have done numerous gingerbread "houses" in my career. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost my portfolio that I had all the pictures. Years of work lost forever. My favorite though, is the church I did for the centerpiece of our gift table, for our wedding (it was Dec. 30th, 2000). Stained glass windows, steeple with bells in it, lit from within. Of all those pictures my favorite is a picture of one of my ferrets climbing all over it and taking chunks out of it (after the event!). Looked like some monster movie!

 

It's a simple process. Just crush up some hard candies (like Jolly Ranchers). When your gingerbread is about 3/4's of the way done fill your window holes with the crushed candy and finish baking. The candies will melt. You will need to bake your gingerbread on either parchment or foil because you will need to keep the gingerbread on it while you are transferring it to cool. Don't cool on wire racks or you can get waves in the "glass". You can use 1 single color for each window or use a variety. I find mixing the colors doesn't always work out really well, but I will put piles of each color in the same window. They will melt and swirl together a little bit. Wish I had those pictures to share.