It’s finally time for a new post. I would write about everything I’ve done since school got out, but since I’m so interesting and have so many wonderful things to talk about, that would take a while. Spoiler, most of it involves sleeping and chocolate. So instead, I will write about my sister and I  making a Rice Krispie Treat train. It’s like a gingerbread train minus the gingerbread and plus some Rice Krispies.

I think gingerbread houses are cute. Who couldn’t love a mini house made of candy? And there’s that exhibit at Conner Prairie with all the houses, and they’re all adorable and whatever. It seems like such a simple task to put a few pieces of cookie together and decorate it with peppermints and gumdrops, but it’s not. At all. At least in my experience. Every year my mom will buy a kit, and my sister and I try to make it, and it’s a disaster. First of all, the pieces never fit together. And whoever’s idea it was to use icing as glue is crazy because unless you have ten years to let it dry, it just makes everything collapse. And you don’t even get to eat it.

So this year I was like, no gingerbread houses. Until my dear friend Mary Brooke Johnson was like gingerbread house making party! Woo!  And for the sake of the holiday season, I agreed to make a house, but then I was sick and fell asleep on the couch instead. I realize that sounds like a lame excuse, but I promise it was just a coincidence!!! But I wasn’t even off the hook completely because of the Rice Krispie Treat train kit my mom bought.

Now let me just say that any type of craft that comes in a box with a perfect picture on the front is full of lies. Like, I’m ages three and up, but just because I’m not going to swallow the pieces doesn’t mean I’m capable of some impossible masterpiece. Last year we threw away these little Santas and Rudolphs because they were too difficult to make. Needless to say, my sister and I were not that excited to cause a train crash, but boredom got the best of us.

We look at the directions. Pretty simple. Make the treats. Mold them. Decorate. Eat. So we melt the butter and mix in the marshmallows and pour the mixture into the bowl of cereal. And some of the cereal may or may not have spilled all over the ground. (Sorry, Mom!) The molding wasn’t too bad, especially since I had Leah do more train cars so I could focus on decorating. Red, blue, green, and white icing. A rainbow of mini Gobstopper-like candies. The icing was surprisingly easy to control, and the candies stuck well for the most part. And if they didn’t, we could just smush them into the cereal, which was never an option with gingerbread. So we finish, and the train is actually adorable; my mom even said it looked “better than the box.” Which was totally true because the box’s example just put a boring window on every car plus a wreath or two. And the best part is, we can eat the delicious train, which is why in the picture there’re only four cars instead of five.

I promise it’s better in real life. And obviously more tasty. Ok so there’s my train story. Hope everyone is having a fabulous break and that this blog makes it a little bit more fabulous. 🙂 It makes me so happy that that turns into a real smiley.

Until next time,

Olivia

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