Dear Gingerbread Witch,

We’re really sorry we can’t make it for your Christmas barbecue this year (either).

We’re …err…. previously engaged. The gingerbread pig you know. He gets cranky if we don’t bring him his glögg.

Anyway.

It’s a very nice house you made there. It’s a house… right?

We bet it was real hard making it. You must have spent hours planning and measuring.

Then the baking. Those walls look really nice and thin. You really know your way around a rolling pin, Witch!

And we’re really impressed you put the whole thing together without any of those thin walls breaking. Reinforcing the walls with sugar – brilliant idea!

The overall design as always, of course, is genius. Traditional, yet modern.

The finish, we feel, can still be improved.

And we know you’ll work on that for next year.

Maybe then, we’ll make your barbecue. Or not.

With our fondest Christmas Wishes,

Hansel & Gretel

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…. and then the gnomes moved in instead