[2] and [3] Prepare your “logs” and lay the foundation. See the rest of the “construction” below.

[3] If you want a sweet house but don’t like gingerbread, here’s a chocolate house, made with molds from King Arthur Flour.

How about a vegetable cottage instead of a gingerbread house?

Created by Green Giant; we found it on

It was originally posted on Green Giant’s Facebook page.

Here’s the rub:

The bloggers who re-posted provided the ingredients, but instructed the reader to “Click here for the directions From Green Giant’s Facebook Page.”

Alas, “Click here” delivers a “Page Not Found.”

Conspiracy: Maybe there never were directions! At best, we have some step-by-step photos to the left and below.

It isn’t hard for anyone who likes craft projects to follow them.

> The history of the gingerbread house.
 
 
RECIPE: VEGGIE LODGE

Ingredients

 
For The “Landscaping”

 
For The Dip

 
Ingredients
 
Or, ditch the healthy house and make this chocolate version from King Arthur Flour (photo #3).

[4] Cut the celery “beams.”

[5] Slice the cucumber “roof tiles.”

[6] Arrange the carrot “logs” with the cream cheese “mortar.”

[7] Create the gables from celery. Add the bell pepper “door” and the other house elements. Then add the “landscaping.”

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