Eating Moomins

« A gingerbread Moomin house. »

Gingerbread houses seem to be an essential part of the holiday season. One gingerbread cookie maker even offers a simple pre-baked house that only requires a little icing to put it together. I had bought one of them and was planning to put it together since I hadn't ever built a gingerbread house before...and then I saw the Moomin gingerbread house cutter set and I was sucked into making it instead. Now, everywhere I look there are guides for all sorts of gingerbread houses, but none are as cute as the Moomin house.

I put together a guide for building your own gingerbread Moomin house (~300k pdf) with pictures, the pattern, building hints and recipes for gingerbread and construction icing should anyone else want to build one and not be able to find the cutter set. There is another guide, in Finnish, with forms (12k pdf) as well. All you need is a bit of imagination and candies to make it come to life. :)