Gingerbread Houses

Well, everyone’s gotta have something they throw into the ol’ Christmas bowl and, for reasons beyond my control, my contribution seems to have become gingerbread housing.

gingerbread house in construction

In terms of recipes last year I used this one, which was pretty useful (good icing) but not so great on the Gingerbread – unless you happen to be constructing a Gingerbread fortress (it’s pretty full on). So this year I was looking at this one or even the about.com version here and was wondering, on the very off chance, if anyone had any tips or recommended recipes for this kinda thing…