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Building a gingerbread house is one of those things that is so much harder than it looks—even if it's broken down into illustrated, IKEA-style instructions. Assembling cookies and candy into an adorable house should be simple, but it can be a challenge just to get the thing to stand upright. Personally, I'm not above using superglue to hold my annual gingerbread house together.
Sometimes, when your patience runs out—or Murphy's Law is in full effect—you have to think outside of the box, just as these brilliant minds have, and make the disheveled mess seem ... deliberate.
The first solution comes from the imagination of a little boy, who opened his gingerbread house kit to find that everything was broken. Thanks to some quick thinking, he was able to use a Godzilla toy to salvage the festively decorated mess. The house is in shambles, but we like how he still took time to frost and accessorize the broken pieces.
The next dinosaur-inspired solution: Place a T-rex figurine next to your less-than-perfect gingerbread house, place a piece of gingerbread in the dinosaur's mouth, and voila! Your gingerbread disaster is now a hilarious Christmas centerpiece.
Your gingerbread house definitely doesn't have to be perfect. If it does start toppling over, grab a plastic dinosaur/monster/villain and add it to your candy Christmas scene for the fastest fail-prevention ever. But if you're still longing for a classically beautiful gingerbread house, check out this Kit Kat bar hack for a faux-paneled façade, and this recipe for real gingerbread (not the cracker-like stuff that comes in a box) that you'll actually enjoy eating.
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