Two walls down...

It didn’t take long for the rest of my tower to collapse. Half an hour ago Kalle shouted from the kitchen that two walls were down and while I was downloading the photos to the computer he shouted again that all walls had fell.

Just a pile of gingerbread pieces left

All walls down...

Breaking News:

The roof of Portomaso Tower collapsed early this morning

Roof of the Portomaso Tower collapsed early this morning, leaving massive structure damage to the rest of the building. Now when the roof is gone, there is no weight on the walls and it will probably take a few days before they fall down. If they still stands by the end of next week, they will be demolished.

The building constructor Emma Brynils says that she will not rebuild the tower until the problems leading to this collapse, has been analyzed and actions taken to prevent this from happening again.

-It’s really no fun to put all time and effort into building houses or in this case – a tower – when it only lasts a couple of days, Emma says. 

Since the collapse were predicted the building was already evacuated and no gingerbread man or women was injured.

The tower without the roof

The walls split up when the roof collapsed

The roof and antenna is broken in pieces at the bottom of the tower

My soon-to-be-gone tower

Look at my poor tower… not much to do about it now.

I’ll just wait and see how long it takes before it falls apart.

I know for sure it won’t last until Christmas anyway.

Foto: Tomas Jakobsson, Länsmuseet Gävleborg

Pepparkakshus i jätteformat 

Entrén 

I år är det tionde gången som konstnären Margareta Persson designar och bygger ett pepparkakshus i jätteformat. Några av de tidigare husen har stått på museet och några i restaurangmiljö. Denna gång är huset större än någonsin – ett mäktigt pepparkaksslott! Med stjärnprydda torn och tinnar, stämningsbelysning och 145 (!) spröjsade fönster står det i länsmuseets entré och sprider pepparkaksdoft och julkänsla.

Länsmuseet Gävleborg

What should I do? Any suggestions?

Since I hade plenty of dingerbread dough left, I decided to build a gingerbread house.

First I had to cut out the different pieces I needed.

Let the pieces cool down.

The smaller pieces got a little burned, but it will have to do anyway.

I think I have all pieces now.

 

The corners must be separated from the wall.

So, all corners at separated from the walls now.

I melted sugar and used it as glue.

The first 3 sides were easy to put toghether.

It was difficult to add the last side without getting burned on the sugar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First corner piece in place.

All 4 small corners added without any problems.

 

Corner walls

 

All corners walls are added now.

  

 

The roof is put in place. The hole is for the antenna.

 

I had to add reinforcement on the roof for the heavy antenna.

 

 

 

 

 

Looking good!

I had problems with the antenna, it almost went throught the roof.

Almost ready now!

Time to decorate

I'm done with the decorations.

Portomaso Business Tower as gingerbread house

I made heart-shaped gingerbread this year

…and I still have dough left that I had to put back in the fridge.

A few years ago I made lussekatter (saffron buns). And I thought it was just as good to make a lot of lussekatter, so I almost doubled the recipe. Then I was stuck baking lussekatter for 6 hours. I was sooo tired the next day! But I think my collegues at work were happy when I served the buns at the coffee break.

So, this time I made only 3/4 of the recipe. Next time I’ll only make half!

The gingerbreads are ready!