Swedish Gingerbread House and Pepparkakor

Up until yesterday I had never (succesfully) made a gingerbread house. In the Netherlands it's not really a thing, we are more speculaas eaters and speculaas is notoriously short - not building material! In Sweden however, there is a great tradition of building "pepparkakshus". I have wanted to make one of these for ages, basically since I was a kid. I tried making one with the Hummingbird Bakery gingerbread recipe two years in a row but failed miserably. This time I was absolutely determined to be successful!

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