Thanks ILB, I used this recipe yesterday to make a gingerbread house with my goddaughter and it was perfect. We made the templates for walls and roof from this site:
http://www.fashion-era.com/Christmas/GingerBread.pdf, although not the windows, etc - we drew those with icing. I am definitely too lazy to make a doorstep out of gingerbread!! We used ILB's royal icing recipe too.
I was quite proud of myself for not being a control freak and letting the 8-year-old do all the decorating. However, this was a practice run for doing the same with my 3-year-old niece next week, and I'm not sure I will be able to be as relaxed then!
Anyway, great recipe.
