Gingerbread ideas!

Hope everyone survived Black Friday with no casualties! I totally didn't go anywhere but work for a few hours! I am an online shopper through and through!

Gingerbread is one of the most popular flavors of the season... so incorporating gingerbread into any event in the winter is a must! Here are a few ideas that might inspire you...

 I still can't get enough of cake pops... these are so freaking adorable! Definitely time consuming, but oh so darling! Source

Slightly below the complexity scale... though not too far, are these adorable mini gingerbread houses that sit on the edge of your cup! Source

Little easier still... gingerbread edible boxes! How fun would these be to give as favors and on your place setting?  Source and tutorial

Still intimidated? How about some gingerbread playdough as your favor?!  I bet your hands smell so good after playing with this! Tie it off with a gingerbread man cookie cutter! Source and recipe

Gingerbread Houses

ok, I hope this doesn't offend any one... but we are VERY non-traditional family with a twisted sense of humor - add that up and you got a non-traditional Gingerbread House party! We had a small group of friends over and had a run-down trailer park theme.  We made the houses out of traditional gingerbread, but used the help of cardboard to make a skeleton to support the weight.  We put out things like cars, garbage bags, shotguns, beer cans and furniture for extra special touches... here is the winning house! Winner got a bottle of Boones Farm wine and pork rinds (funny thing is the winner was a vegetarian, needless to say, she left the pork rinds behind ;o)

Notice the pig roast, chair on the lawn and the far bottom left is a toilet made into a planter lol...

This is another side of the house with wife with shotgun and beer, trash, van up on blocks and broken fencing and NASCAR written in "chrismas lights"... a fun wine-filled night was had by all!