DIY GINGERBREAD TARDIS (Doctor Who Online Holiday Special!)

Happy holidays from Robyn, your friendly neighborhood Doctor Who Online Presenter. Why make a gingerbread house when you can make a GINGERBREAD TARDIS...after all, the Doctor may still not be ginger, but his TARDIS can be!

Recipe is here, at the Food Network website, because we're massively uncreative and also largely terrible at baking so obviously we just borrowed a recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/gingerbread-house-recipe/index.html

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1/4 cup light molasses or dark corn syrup
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon ground ginger
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cloves
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons water

Directions are these:

In a large mixing bowl, cream butter, brown sugar, molasses, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and baking soda together until smooth. Blend in the flour and water to make a stiff dough. Chill at least 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Roll out dough with a rolling pin on a floured surface and, using a non-serrated knife, cut around templates.

Use TARDIS TEMPLATES, FOUND HERE (http://www.robynschneider.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/tardistemplate.jpg). Or! cut a piece of computer paper into one 4.5" x 7" rectangle, one 4.5" square and one 4.5" x 0.5" rectangle and use those.

Bake for 15 minutes and let cool on a wire rack.

Decorate your TARDIS as desired, including cutting one template in half heightwise to make doors. (I added some blue sugar crystals, which promptly came off and decorated the burners of the kitchen range, causing me endless scrubbing! Awesome! I also used wax paper and a Sharpie to make windows for my TARDIS).

Use a HOT GLUE GUN to glue the sides and top together, gluing on the two doors last. You can also buy a little battery operated LED at a craft store and poke it through the top of the TARDIS if you'd like.

AND YOU'RE DONE. Your very own (non-stolen) TARDIS. Go ahead and call it "Sexy" when you're alone together. It's just a shame I couldn't cook up a new chameleon circuit while I was at it.

Happy holidays!
xo Robyn Schneider
http://www.youtube.com/robynisrarelyfunny
http://www.twitter.com/robynschneider
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Music used was like two seconds of the Subwave Signal by the ever-excellent Chameleon Circuit, courtesy of DFTBA Records and you can buy their CD here: http://dftba.com/artist/9/Chameleon-Circuit

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• robyn schneider
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• christmas special
• holiday special
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• tardis
• baking
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• matt smith
• karen gillan
• Matt Smith (actor)

[robynisrarelyfunny]

You guys. I tried to put icing. I TRIED. A better chef than me may succeed where I failed.

[Timinator232]

You can totally fit inside. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside

[karicom333]

ITS BIGGER ON THE INSIDE! Haha! That was cool

[noorsaar]

@noorsaar And your a ginger, too.

[noorsaar]

Oh. My. God.

I am smiling so much my face might break. You like grammar, writing, puns and doctor who?

[playfulkitty828]

OMG glad I'm not the only girl with a sonic :D

Awesome! :D XD I will try to make one some day :D

[WishUponaStarrHRC]

My boyfriend is coming tomorrow and we're baking this. Pumpeddd

[jammer42777]

Thank you! and Merry Christmas! :)

[kimberkali77]

This is completely awesome and quirky. I will have to try this sometime (with edible glue though).

[strandednotlost]

You hair is really red, Robyn.

[emmfan09]

I want to try this! But I would want mine to be edible. Because. Eating is my favorite.

[desertislanddream]

This is beyond adorable. =)