This time of year, the gingerbread house is one craft almost everyone can get behind, as it offers opportunities for cookie-based architecture and gumdrop and candy-cane decoration. Most of us who have attempted these delicious structures, though, know that it is extremely difficult to have them stay standing, no…

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