How hard is it to build a spinning wheel out of gingerbread?

Where I discover just how difficult it is to build a spinning wheel out of Gingerbread.
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*Gingerbread (my wonky recipe)*
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup lard
1 cup molasses
4 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons ground ginger
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
a few drops of warm water if needed
1. preheat oven 350F
2. Put sugar, lard, and molasses in a pot on medium. Stir until melted and blended.
3. Mix remaining dry ingredients (not the water) in a large bowl
4. Pour wet stuff into dry stuff and stir really really really well until your wrist feels like falling off.
5. If still crumbly, add a few drops of warm water and keep on stirring.
6. Roll out 1/4" thick (or desired thickness) and cut into shape.
7. Bake on trays for 10-15 min (12 was the perfect time for mine)
8. Take trays out of the oven. Let gingerbread cool and harden completely before moving.
9. Assemble in your favourite way (I use Royal Icing - see below)
*Royal Icing*
3 egg whites
3/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 pound icing sugar
1. Put in a bowl and with an electric mixer (if you don't mind your wrist falling off you can do this by hand), beat slowly at first.
2. Once everything is mixed together, beat on high for 8-12 min. You cannot overbeat - I've tried. If you need the icing to be structural, beat as long as possible. If not, then 8 min is enough. You want the peaks to hold up when you lift the beater out of the icing.
3. Add colour if needed - I apparently suck at this and can give you no useful advice on the right way to add colour. A whole bottle of food dye and I can only get baby blue. Maybe next year I'll figure it out.
4. Put the icing into a plastic bag or piping bag. I keep mine in a plastic bag and only cut the tip just before using it.
To store, keep at room temperature. Use within a few days.
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[@CrowingHen]

Have you ever built anything crazy out of gingerbread? Let me know what.

[@CrowingHen]

I'm allowed to heart my own comment, right?

[@Reximusprimebeta]

@@CrowingHen for sure!

[@Reximusprimebeta]

I built a sleigh and a train one year. They were quite a bit uglier than expected but fun anyway.

[@CrowingHen]

@@Reximusprimebeta That sound fun. gingerbread never seems to be quite as pretty as the image in my head. Why is that?

[@Reximusprimebeta]

@@CrowingHen Because we have better imaginations than art skills... :D

[@Laurpud]

The captions were very good, & I appreciate whenever a maker adds then 💙

[@ronmcleod4717]

Great video! Saw the Tardis one as well - very nice. I've never made gingerbread before. Do you generally use lard (rather than veg shortening or butter), or did you use lard in these projects because it makes more durable construction materials?

[@CrowingHen]

thanks for watching. I use lard because vegetable shorting gives me a stomach ache. But most of the modern recipes I've seen use shortening so I figure it is okay to use either depending on what flavour you like.

[@fairygrove3928]

Thank you so much for the fun closed-captioning! I love when people take the time to do the closed captions, and I find it absolutely delightful when there's little hidden funnies or comments in the closed captioning. Thank you!

[@CrowingHen]

Glad you like them! I think I broke youtube trying to get the secret stuff in there, but it worked out okay in the end.

[@JillianEve]

This is absolutely amazing! Well done! (And I love the Tardis too!)

[@CrowingHen]

Thank you so much! It was a lot of fun!

[@leightate7491]

Yay ginger! I've never tried any gingerbread construction, although I've thought about it. I love your original ideas. Very fun.

[@CrowingHen]

You should! I would love to hear how it goes.

[@Reximusprimebeta]

Awesome first attempt! I also love the Tardis at the end!

[@CrowingHen]

Yay, thank you! The TARDIS was so much easier. Keep an eye out for the video arriving in a few days.

[@fairygrove3928]

@@CrowingHen I didn't realize the Tardis was made of gingerbread at first watching. I had to watch it again to catch that!

[@trampledbygeese]

Yummy!

[@CrowingHen]

It was!