Hope everyone is well

Did the last of the shopping today so phew..

Hope you enjoy this chapter xx

Belle had gone out and brought gingerbread houses for the group to build a few days ago, t was snowing heavily outside so now was the perfect time to make them.

"Here you go guys, Ben still does this every year," Belle said as she brought out the boxes, and extra sweets for decorating.

"Its fun and delicious," Ben said.

"I'm with Ben on this," Adam said as he sat down with the group.

"Okay, so what do we do?" Mal asked as everyone getting their houses out of the box.

"Well first we build it, which can be difficult I used struggled with this when I was younger," Ben said as he got his icing ready.

"Yes, and he still struggles to this day," Adam said.

"Daad ahhh," Ben said in mock embarrassment.

"Okay, so my icing is ready my gingerbread house is out of its packet how do I build it?" Jay asked.

"Get one of the side pieces that will be the longest one and put some icing along the shortest edge, when you have done that get the smallest piece and put the longest edge to the icing and hold it their till it sticks," Ben said, as he showed them.

"And make sure the pattern is facing outwards," Belle said "Ben used to do that and it got him a little annoyed when he was younger Ben went a little red at that.

"Wait I'm confused," Mal said, so Ben helped her and Carlos build their first side.

"And we do that for all the sides? Evie asked.

"Yeah, but build the roof before you put it on the house," Ben said, and everyone got underway building their houses.

Mal and Carlos' kept falling down a few times and Mal got a little frustrated, Jay's broke a little but he was cool with it and just ate the piece that broke, Belle and Adam's looked amazing but then they had years of practice under their belt.

"Now that you have built your house, you can decorate it," Ben said as he started to ice along the roof so he could stick some M&M's on.

"Sweet," Jay said as he started decorating the front of his house.

"Decorating gingerbread houses with yummy bears because they are yummy bears," Evie sang as she stuck them around her house.

"I love peppermint," Mal said as she ate one savouring the taste.

"Stop eating the decorations," Carlos said, jokingly.

"But they taste so good," Mal said licking her lips.

"So do gummy bears," Evie said.

"Here eat a gummy bear," Ben said as he passed her one.

"Awe Belle that's so pretty," Mal said.

"Thanks Mal," Belle said as she continued on with her task.

"Jay are you just putting all the sweets that you can fit on your house?" Adam asked.

"Pretty much yeah," Jay said shrugging his shoulders.

"I like your thinking," Adam said thoughtfully.

"What's that?" Evie asked as she pointed to something on Carlos' house.

"Oh, as porch light," Carlos replied he had stuck a yellow skittles on a strawberry lace with a lot of icing and stuck the other end onto the roof.

"Ohhh," Evie said.

"Mal, are you just eating the decorations?" Ben asked as he looked over at his girlfriend who was ninety five percent icing.

"Mmm?" Mal said as she liked her fingers.

After everyone had used up their icing and was happy with their end result or had eaten most of the sweets provided they walked everyone through their gingerbread houses.

"I stuck peppermint along the roof, that's a wreath I made with rainbow drops, this is like a flower bed," Mal said gesturing to the Hershey kisses around the edge of her house with M&M's on top.

"Cool," Ben said. "I put M&M's around the edge of the roof, rainbow drops around the door and windows, I decorated the walls with icing just random swirls and placed peppermint around the edge,"

"Adam what about you?" Mal asked.

"Well I outlined the design in different coloured icing and placed smarties around the bottom edge of the house and rainbow strips round the top edge to give of a Christmas light vibe," Adam said turning his house around so everyone could see the different sides.

"Nice," Said Carlos.

"I'll go next," Evie said excitedly. "I put a lot of gummy bears around the house and I also decorated the top with smarties, I also put curtains up in the windows," Evie said, the curtains were rainbow strips.

"wow that is a lot of gummy bears," Belle exclaimed. "Well, as you can see I out lined my house as well but in just white and sprinkled different coloured sugar ice the top, I also stuck Hershey kisses at the front and M&M's around the bottom edge around the house, " Belle said as she showed everyone.

"Cool," Evie said as she admired Belles decorative skills she shouldn't be surprised though she took a big part in decorating the castle and Auradon prep and she thought both buildings were amazing.

"Yo my house has a hole in the roof but that is okay Santa needs it easy sometimes he must get tired so if he can get in really quick like quicker than going down a chimney or magic key then he can have a little rest," Jay said as he began to describe his house. "So around the edge I put these gummy round things, the front has candy canes and gummy bears, I put smarties and M&M's on the roof, the back has a few gummy ears as well and on this side I stuck some Hershey kisses and peppermint," Jay said, a few gummy bears fell off which Evie promptly ate claiming that they were not in his house so fair game causing them all to laugh a little.

"Soo, Carlos you are up," Mal said as she looked at his house.

"So I covered it in icing, forgot that I couldn't see the windows so I tried to draw them on with the different colours, I put gummy bears up on the roof and rainbow drops around the edge of it, I stuck some of those round gummy things that Jay used on the roof as well, um I put peppermint around the edge of my house some candy canes, smarties everything," Carlos said as he turned hi house around trying g to fi d something he missed.

"Come on I want to get a photo of this," Belle said as she made everyone squeeze in together with their houses. "Say gingerbread houses,"

"Moom," Ben said.

"Say it I am still your mother you know," Belle said, placing a hand on her hips and pulling a mock stern face.

"Alright," Ben said smiling.

"GUNGERBREAD HOUSES," They all said and Belle snapped a photo.

They all snapped a few photos of there own mostly if each others gingerbread houses and posting it on InstaRoyal.

"Can we eat these?" Mal asked.

"Of course, you can save it eat it," Adam said and Mal smiled as she took a peppermint t off.

I have never actually built it decorated a gingerbread house though I have decorated a gingerbread man and that was fun.

I went off YouTube videos for inspiration

Reviews appreciated xx