Ginger Tardis

Christmas-Related Craft! 

About five days before Christmas, my good ginger friend Cal came to visit me in the sunshine from the great south. Unfortunately for him (and eventually, for the whole state) it rained the whole time he was here (and then it rained some more, and then some more, until we were all delightfully underwater....but that's a different story)

Like two little kids stuck inside on a Sunday afternoon, we decided to fill our rainy day with cooking! Better than that, Christmas cooking! Even more betterer than that, Doctor Who Christmas Cooking!

We donned our Masterchef badges (nice colouring in skills, no?) and our Santa hats and got to work!

Cal and Badams, in our Christmassy Masterchef glory

 Sadly, I don't have the recipe handy, or I would give you a run-down of the whole thing. It's a brilliant recipe, and fairly gluten-free flour friendly, if you know how to work it. (I totally know how to work it!) A little bit of extra egg is the key, although, with this recipe, it also meant a whole lot more golden syrup too.

After making the dough, we rolled it out and cut it into rectangles to make our TARDIS. Then we chose some characters we wanted to include and cut them out too. (it wasn't as difficult as you might imagine...the dough was nice and firm, so we could pretty much cut exactly what we wanted. Not that we knew if it would work at the time. running by the skin of our noses, or some saying that actually makes sense...)

A floury dress is the step to success!

We baked the pretties and then set ourselves to painting and assembling them

 To paint the gingerbread, we used a mixture of icing, food dye, food paint and food crayons. (Food crayons are these nifty little things that you shave colour off and put into icing or whatever. Neat stuff)

Rose (Idiot's Lantern style) The Doctor, Cassandra, The Face of Boe and a Dalek)

 

Next came the far more difficult task of assembling the TARDIS. We used the same colour icing as on the TARDIS walls and green icing Apple Grass on which to stick everything.

Note: When using icing for sticky purposes, try to make it as thick and firm as possibly. Think mortar!

We stuck all the bits together (as always, with an ample amount of swearing) to create out very own ginger-TARDIS

TARDIS SUCCESS!!!

...and The Doctor finally got to be a ginger...