Sarah Raven's Kitchen and Garden

I had a great day on Tuesday creating a template – with Molly, our youngest daughter – for a very English ginger bread house. Lots of the patterns around are Scandinavian as they’re much keener on making gingerbread houses than we are, so we decided to make a cottage/slightly ramshackle farmhouse instead. We then made the house and stuck it together with toffee and iced the roof with great dollops of snow. Then a massive dusting of icing sugar did wonders for snow.