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"  Last December, I thought I was taking a shortcut by making a gingerbread house with my grandchildren from a prebaked kit. While the finished house was adorable, I quickly learned that &amp;quot;building&amp;quot; even a house that requires that you paste the walls and roof together with royal icing is a bit of a stretch for the attention span of children under 5. You need to proceed in stages with long waiting periods of an hour or more during which you have to dream up other fun activities while listening to, &amp;quot;Is it time yet?&amp;quot;, over and over again. So this year, I opted for a completely assembled house from Target and we were able to proceed to the good part, applying the candy trimmings, right away. As you can see by comparing the 2010 (left) and 2011 (above and right) models, Jack and Caitlin&amp;#039;s decorating skills have improved!   This year we added a new touch...we surrounded the house with Christmas tree- and snowman-shaped marshmallow Peeps (purchased at Walgreens). Not satisfied with just a house, Caitlin insisted on baking a gingerbread man to go with it. You can see him standing in front of his residence in the picture above. We baked him up from our test kitchen&amp;#039;s recipe for GH Gingerbread Cutouts.  Want to learn how we put consumer products to the test and keep you safe? Sign up for a tour of the famous Good Housekeeping Research Institute. If you visit, be sure to say hello when you come by the Kitchen Appliances &amp;amp;amp; Technology Lab. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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