..And so our family's cookie house tradition continues... Sorta.

Soakedloopie · 12-24-2007, 11:48 AM

This year the kids and I decided we would make our very first Nestle
Tollhouse cookie house (without parental aid on my part)..

I was so excited! We had bags of candy and pounds of chocolate chips ready
and waiting for days!

We invited some friends over and I spent the morning baking cookie sheet after cookie sheet of house parts.

A few little beginner "mishaps" (our house had two doors and the roof was
just slighty short, but what can ya do..?) and we were set to
decorate!

The house was a little crooked as we put it all together with toothpicks
and frosting glue. 5 eager little faces sat around the table as we
assembled it, just waiting to decorate and then eat this masterpiece.

It was beautiful. Fit for a sugar plum fairy herself, with it's
multicolored ribbon candy shutters and peppermint patty walkway. We even
gave it a chimney and some tootsie roll fire wood.

*insert intro to the tragic ending music here*

Then it reeallly started to lean... Overhangs began to crack and walls
began to cave inward.

Our sugar coated structure stood a total of 74 minutes before it's
collapse, which was quickly followed by a small pack of vultures swooping
in to devour the remains.

It was a fabulously fun time and I just want to thank my mom and dad for
handing me this family tradition to share with my children.

Maybe next year the house will stay standing a bit longer...

kudzu420 · 12-25-2007, 10:45 AM

wow...you are quite the ambitious one on the holiday. looks like you needed a building permit for that project!!! merry christmas!

peace, kudzu

№1 · 12-25-2007, 11:17 AM

One fairly large gingerbread house...

$5

One illegal firework...

$5

Cheers from the neighbor kids as the house is blown to smithereens...

Priceless.

We usually wait until New Years, there will be video this year, I can hardly wait!

Soakedloopie · 12-25-2007, 08:38 PM

It was a monumental task. Of that I was sure, having watched my mother struggle with the roof issues as a child.

Maybe it's just the way I remember it, maybe it's because she made 5 or 6 houses every year for all the childhood christmas' that I can remember, but my mothers always turned out so lovely.

**slunt** · 12-25-2007, 09:29 PM

Next year use 5/8" lag bolts and 3' zinc coated screws. Guaranteed to stand up for 100 years!

Soakedloopie · 12-25-2007, 09:35 PM

Just don't chip a tooth or anything in the eating process.

BTW, Merry Christmas, my dear.

DrChronic · 12-26-2007, 03:43 PM

you seem like an awesome mother

thats some cool shit!

Soakedloopie · 12-26-2007, 05:03 PM

Thanks. It was a lot of fun.

№1 · 12-26-2007, 05:18 PM

Next time use shortening instead, you'll have a stiffer cookie thats much easier to build with, you want to roll out the dough thinner as well.

Thats why they make gingerbread houses, its a much denser dough and is baked longer to give it some rigidity.

That looks like a damned tasty disaster area you got goin' on though.

Soakedloopie · 12-26-2007, 06:53 PM

SHORTENING! Thanks for the tip, I'm gonna try it next year.

And I know that gingerbread is easier to work with, but ease of building is DEFINITELY not top consideration here... This is all about the eating!!!

Who wouldn't agree that chocolate chip cookie houses > gingerbread houses?

Am I right? I'm right, right? You know I'm right...

**Maturin** · 12-26-2007, 07:06 PM

When you're right you're right. Those are some great pics Loops. That last one made me laugh.

I for one, though, think that El Fudges with their built in caulking material are the way to go.

Flamingnun · 12-26-2007, 07:08 PM

lol badass =D

12-24-2007, 11:48 AM	#1 (permalink)
Soakedloopie ~~ Girly Girl ~~ Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Lost In The Details Posts: 3,556 Thanks: 2 Thanked 106 Times in 48 Posts	..And so my family's cookie house tradition continues... Sorta This year the kids and I decided we would make our very first Nestle Tollhouse cookie house (without parental aid on my part).. I was so excited! We had bags of candy and pounds of chocolate chips ready and waiting for days! We invited some friends over and I spent the morning baking cookie sheet after cookie sheet of house parts. A few little beginner "mishaps" (our house had two doors and the roof was just slighty short, but what can ya do..?) and we were set to decorate! The house was a little crooked as we put it all together with toothpicks and frosting glue. 5 eager little faces sat around the table as we assembled it, just waiting to decorate and then eat this masterpiece. It was beautiful. Fit for a sugar plum fairy herself, with it's multicolored ribbon candy shutters and peppermint patty walkway. We even gave it a chimney and some tootsie roll fire wood. insert intro to the tragic ending music here Then it reeallly started to lean... Overhangs began to crack and walls began to cave inward. Our sugar coated structure stood a total of 74 minutes before it's collapse, which was quickly followed by a small pack of vultures swooping in to devour the remains. It was a fabulously fun time and I just want to thank my mom and dad for handing me this family tradition to share with my children. Maybe next year the house will stay standing a bit longer... Attached Images __________________ If I love you with all my heart, she said, what will you give me? & then she stopped & said I didn't have to answer that because she was going to do it anyway. ~BA Last edited by Soakedloopie; 12-24-2007 at 11:58 AM.

12-25-2007, 10:45 AM	#2 (permalink)
kudzu420 Old School Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: living abroad Posts: 307 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	wow...you are quite the ambitious one on the holiday. looks like you needed a building permit for that project!!! merry christmas! peace, kudzu __________________ "skaters by their very nature are urban guerillas: they make everyday use out of useless artifacts of the techological burden, and employ the handiwork of the government/corporate structure in a thousand ways that the original architects could never dream up." craig stecyk, 1976

12-25-2007, 11:17 AM	#3 (permalink)
№1 Banzai Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: 8th dimension Posts: 8,911 Thanks: 32 Thanked 108 Times in 78 Posts	One fairly large gingerbread house... $5 One illegal firework... $5 Cheers from the neighbor kids as the house is blown to smithereens... Priceless. We usually wait until New Years, there will be video this year, I can hardly wait! __________________ "History is'a made at night! Character is what you are in the dark!" John Whorfin --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Planet Ten

12-25-2007, 08:38 PM	#4 (permalink)
Soakedloopie ~~ Girly Girl ~~ Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Lost In The Details Posts: 3,556 Thanks: 2 Thanked 106 Times in 48 Posts	It was a monumental task. Of that I was sure, having watched my mother struggle with the roof issues as a child. Maybe it's just the way I remember it, maybe it's because she made 5 or 6 houses every year for all the childhood christmas' that I can remember, but my mothers always turned out so lovely. __________________ If I love you with all my heart, she said, what will you give me? & then she stopped & said I didn't have to answer that because she was going to do it anyway. ~BA

12-25-2007, 09:29 PM	#5 (permalink)
slunt ArcticMystic Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: People's Republic of Kanada Posts: 2,753 Thanks: 12 Thanked 124 Times in 85 Posts	Next year use 5/8" lag bolts and 3' zinc coated screws. Guaranteed to stand up for 100 years! __________________ I'd like to see things from your point of view but I can't seem to get my head that far up my ass.

12-25-2007, 09:35 PM	#6 (permalink)
Soakedloopie ~~ Girly Girl ~~ Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Lost In The Details Posts: 3,556 Thanks: 2 Thanked 106 Times in 48 Posts	Just don't chip a tooth or anything in the eating process. BTW, Merry Christmas, my dear. __________________ If I love you with all my heart, she said, what will you give me? & then she stopped & said I didn't have to answer that because she was going to do it anyway. ~BA

12-26-2007, 03:43 PM	#7 (permalink)
DrChronic Human Suppository Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Borough Of Englandshire Posts: 3,769 Thanks: 5 Thanked 6 Times in 3 Posts	you seem like an awesome mother thats some cool shit! __________________ SUCK MY SOPPING CUNT

12-26-2007, 05:03 PM	#8 (permalink)
Soakedloopie ~~ Girly Girl ~~ Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Lost In The Details Posts: 3,556 Thanks: 2 Thanked 106 Times in 48 Posts	Thanks. It was a lot of fun. __________________ If I love you with all my heart, she said, what will you give me? & then she stopped & said I didn't have to answer that because she was going to do it anyway. ~BA

12-26-2007, 05:18 PM	#9 (permalink)
№1 Banzai Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: 8th dimension Posts: 8,911 Thanks: 32 Thanked 108 Times in 78 Posts	Next time use shortening instead, you'll have a stiffer cookie thats much easier to build with, you want to roll out the dough thinner as well. Thats why they make gingerbread houses, its a much denser dough and is baked longer to give it some rigidity. That looks like a damned tasty disaster area you got goin' on though. __________________ "History is'a made at night! Character is what you are in the dark!" John Whorfin --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Planet Ten

12-26-2007, 06:53 PM	#10 (permalink)
Soakedloopie ~~ Girly Girl ~~ Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Lost In The Details Posts: 3,556 Thanks: 2 Thanked 106 Times in 48 Posts	SHORTENING! Thanks for the tip, I'm gonna try it next year. And I know that gingerbread is easier to work with, but ease of building is DEFINITELY not top consideration here... This is all about the eating!!! Who wouldn't agree that chocolate chip cookie houses > gingerbread houses? Am I right? I'm right, right? You know I'm right... __________________ If I love you with all my heart, she said, what will you give me? & then she stopped & said I didn't have to answer that because she was going to do it anyway. ~BA

12-26-2007, 07:06 PM	#11 (permalink)
Maturin Hmm? Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Das Kapital Posts: 1,764 Thanks: 41 Thanked 36 Times in 31 Posts	When you're right you're right. Those are some great pics Loops. That last one made me laugh. I for one, though, think that El Fudges with their built in caulking material are the way to go. __________________ I'm not sorry for nothin' I've done I'm glad I fought - I only wish we'd won. --Bob Dylan

12-26-2007, 07:08 PM	#12 (permalink)
Flamingnun SPEC - V Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: roflmao Posts: 16,968 Thanks: 43 Thanked 272 Times in 151 Posts	lol badass =D __________________

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