
Extreme Gingerbread House Fails Are Emerging Online--And We Can Relate
By Aimee LutkinNov. 18 2019, Updated 2:36 p.m. ET
A Christmas tradition that looks amazing on Pinterest doesn't always translate in the hands of less professionally festive folk. Every year, people try to make beautiful gingerbread houses, and every year, many of them fail miserably.
But their failure is a win for us.
"I am very sad to announce my gingerbread house has suffered catastrophic damage. RIP gingerbread house. December 2nd 9:08 pm-December 3rd 7:56 pm. Cause of collapse: I pushed too hard on a gum drop and it broke," wrote one sad person who presumably put a lot of time and effort into their holiday dessert.
I am very sad to announce my gingerbread house has suffered catastrophic damage. RIP gingerbread house. December 2nd 9:08 pm-December 3rd 7:56 pm. Cause of collapse: I pushed too hard on a gum drop and it broke pic.twitter.com/U9vgGYIz3v
— Bailey Keil (@BaileyKeil) December 4, 2017
"Pushing too hard on a gum drop" is the best way to suffer catastrophic collapse, in my opinion.
In fact, building a gingerbread house is not nearly as great of a tradition as sharing the utter failure of the cookie domiciles you produced. People are sharing all the broken, tumbled down sugar homes they've made, and it's better than anything they could have done on purpose.
"We tried to make a gingerbread house and write ACE family on it but we failed.... tomorrow we are making another one!" reads one of these image captions. Props, seriously, for the determination and perseverance you demonstrate in wanting to take on this savage challenge once again. I would probably not subject myself to two consecutive evenings of crucial failure, but that's probably why I've never ended up with a beautiful and delectable gingerbread house.
Listen. I tried to make a gingerbread house. OK I tried pic.twitter.com/TnW14IQxgd
— ❄☃FrostySpaceKid☃❄ (@LonelySpaceKid) December 7, 2017
@CatherinePaiz @AustinMcbroom we tried to make a gingerbread house and write ACE family on it but we failed.... tomorrow we are making another one! pic.twitter.com/6ZZ85Yj6ys
— Fernanda Sillero (@fersillero) December 9, 2017
My daughter and I tried to make a gingerbread house tonight😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/QdpyxezGW8
— Debenezer Scrooge (@DebIsGone) December 3, 2017
Something seriously terrible happened at this gingerbread house.#gingerbreadhouse #Christmas2017 pic.twitter.com/48oBdK3Ijm
— Seantaclaus R Frazier (@TheCleftonTwain) November 26, 2017
I was going to have the best homemade gingerbread house ever, then it fell. #fail pic.twitter.com/FItRzBul3d
— Jac (@JaclynHagstrom) December 10, 2017
Well mine and Ty’s first gingerbread house was a fail... 😂 pic.twitter.com/CIghIisjoK
— Tamara ☕️ (@tamaralea_14) December 9, 2017
Today Brandon and I made a gingerbread house and it looked terrible pic.twitter.com/hStdUCeztC
— Kayla Joy (@kaylajoy99) November 27, 2017
Some people even made their mistakes into part of the gingerbread's house narrative:
#gingerbreadhouse #fail just add #dinosaurs pic.twitter.com/B4yWBLQVAy
— Holly who (@Hollywho77) December 11, 2017
My gingerbread house was destroyed and vandalized! pic.twitter.com/PJ4UN2Jvf2
— ENDR ST3VE (@bricks_force) December 10, 2017
But even just showing off how the cookie crumbled is good enough:
RIP Gingerbread house pic.twitter.com/MV9iaqXiSq
— Alexandra Petrolo (@nursealex95) December 11, 2017
Since it’s December 3rd I’m gonna catch up on the days I missed... Here’s our fail at the gingerbread house pic.twitter.com/VKF2BSVexG
— Kristmas Kate 🎄☃️❄️ (@katelynmarie292) December 4, 2017
The girls' attempt at a gingerbread house while we were at the bball game last night 😀 #unfinishedbusiness #toocutetho pic.twitter.com/oDRu9WTUVM
— Carrie Drost (@carebearz_001) December 8, 2017
Let's hope the #Badgers night gets better than my attempt at building this gingerbread house. ☹️ pic.twitter.com/8yRXEnT2xT
— Tessa Ruid (@TessaRuid) December 3, 2017
And you can still eat it.
Unless you're INSANE:
Every year I attempt to make a gingerbread house and every year it ends up like this: pic.twitter.com/bgsSjrKwZh
— kayla (@KaylaTurpin) December 9, 2017
What? It's still good to eat!! Take it out of the trash and plate it, in the spirit of the season.