Hogwarts Gingerbread Castle

Hogwarts Gingerbread Castle

I researched Hogwarts Gingerbread Castles and found a blog post on Not Quite Nigella and her Hogwarts Castle made of Gingerbread. Her Gingerbread Castle is gorgeous! Do pop over and check it out.

Our son set to work finding boxes, toilet paper rolls, and paper towel rolls for his castle. He got two pieces of foam board for the very base and covered them with aluminum foil.

Our son placed the paper rolls on a larger box where he thought his towers should go. He cut open the bottom of the box so that it would sit flat on the table. Then he drew on top of the box where he wanted his buildings. Then he measured those markings so that he would know how big to make those pieces of gingerbread.

Hogwarts Gingerbread Castle

We set to work making our gingerbread. He helped me with the measuring, mixing, and rolling out of the dough. We wrapped out toilet paper rolls and paper towel roll in aluminum foil. Wrapping the rolls in our flattened gingerbread was one of the hardest parts about making the gingerbread. This is because you had to get the gingerbread super thin but at the same time thick enough to not crack and break….it took us several tries and a whole batch of dough before we got it right. We cut little rectangular windows in the side pieces for our Great Hall.

Our son crushed some red Jolly Rangers and filled the windows with them. In the oven, these candy pieces melted beautifully to look like red glass!