BBC Good Food

24 December 2007

Tested

"I made 28 of these houses with the Year 3/4 class that I teach. On Friday, there were several missing so we only ended up with 21. This recipe was incredibly easy and the children really enjoyed making the houses. The only problem was that the children were not brilliant at cutting the walls, et cetera, accurately so the houses came out a bit wonky. If anyone is considering doing the same, I would recommend etting cutters of a similar size to the template on this site. When it was home time, I lined up two tables that were covered with greaseproof paper and put the houses on them, lined up to look like a street. I then put some toy cars in front of some of the houses and sifted a small amount of icing sugar over all of it to look like snow. When the children came out and saw it, they gasped.. literally. Parents were equally impressed and most were reaching for their cameras! I will use this recipe again next year, but will use cutters instead of the template. I have a photo of "