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Gingerbread Train

Our family embarked on a new challenge this Christmas season. We constructed our first gingerbread masterpiece. There are a ton of people doing gingerbread houses. Houses are great, but it is the trains that excite our boys. My wife found the detailed plans for this gingerbread train in Familyfun Magazine.

UPDATE: We plan to do it again. We hope to build a bigger and better train this year.

Below are the results of our first attempt at following the FamilyFun plan for building a train. I will provide pictures that tells the story much better than my words. You can click on any of the images for a larger copy.

Get all the right stuff first!

Find a professional rolling pin operator.

Cut out the dough using the printable templates from FamilyFun.com. We used card stock for durability.

Gingerbread Dough Ready for the Oven

Gingerbread Dough after the Oven

Trim the gingerbread dough while it is warm.

Here Riley is using frosting to glue together graham crackers that were used for edible support.

Always use a professional decorating team.

Make sure the decorating team has some fun.

Applying the finishing touches to the Gingerbread Train.

The finished product.

A close up of the train cars.

A last look at our version of the Gingerbread Train.

We spent a total of three days building this train. That was two weekend afternoons of dough preparation and baking. We then spent about three hours on a Monday evening assembling and decorating the train.

Oh…We have been asked several times already about the snow. The snow is just a dusting of coconut shavings.

You can see another picture of this train on my main blog The Land of Ozz. If you would rather build a gingerbread house then you need to check out Simply Recipes: How to Make a Gingerbread House.

This entry was posted on Sunday, December 17th, 2006 at 4:11 pm and is filed under Baking. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “Gingerbread Train”

1. Caden’s Page » Blog Archive » Christmas Season Fun and more Says:
   December 17th, 2006 at 10:32 pm

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2. Elise Says:
   December 22nd, 2006 at 7:46 pm

   What a lovely gingerbread train! I love the use of red licorice twists for the tracks. Coconut flakes as snow is a good idea too, better than the powdered sugar that I used. Does Riley get to eat it?

3. Lisa Says:
   November 29th, 2007 at 4:53 pm

   Hi, there.

   I found the family fun site and have all instructions for the train. The problem is that the pdf file with the templates does not come up for me. Do you happen to have the templates? If so, is there anyway you can send them as an attachment to me?? Thanks. Last year, my daughter and I made a house. But she loves trains, and this year, I’d really like to do the train.

4. Hank Says:
   December 4th, 2007 at 12:50 am

   Elise, Yes! Riley did get to eat it. At least part of it. We gave two cars to some friends. Thanks for the link from your blog. I am honored.

   Lisa, I emailed you with a response. Thanks for checking out Grill’n Time.

5. Caden’s Page » Blog Archive » UES Dilation Says:
   December 14th, 2007 at 12:55 am

   [...] Last year we did an engine, caboose, and two other cars. This year we got a little over ambitious and created an engine, caboose, and four cars. One (the passenger car) was custom made rather than using the Family Fun magazine template. [...]

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