Gingerbread Haunted House

What You’ll Need:

• food coloring
• frosting
• cardboard
• aluminum foil
• graham crackers
• edible decorations
• table knife
• licorice

How to Make It:

1. Add several drops of orange food coloring (or both red and yellow) to half a can of vanilla frosting. Stir well. This is the “cement” for building the house.

2. Cover a large piece of cardboard with aluminum foil to use as the base for the house.

3. Spread cement at both short ends of two graham cracker rectangles to make the front and back wall of the house. To make the side walls, break another graham cracker in half. Press each half into the cement on each long graham cracker, as shown, standing the figure on edge.

4. For the roof, cement another cracker flat on top of the walls. Spread cement on the two long sides and edges of two more graham crackers, and place an edge of each on the long sides of the flat cracker, leaning them in to meet in the middle. Add more frosting to hold them in place.

5. To decorate, spread a touch of cement on candy corn, licorice, and other edible decorations, and attach them. To make a tree, use a table knife to split a long piece of licorice partway. Use other colors of frosting, too, such as green for grass, topped with flaked coconut dyed green. (Put the coconut in a sealable plastic bag, add food coloring, and shake well.)

6. If everything you use is edible, you and your family can munch on the house after admiring it!