palm springs gingerbread house

Here's the truth: we go a little bit ga-ga over anything to do with the Californian oasis that is Palm Springs. It's hard not to when the city is a desert-based bubble of awesomeness, filled with some of our favourite things: palm trees, pools, Mid-century architecture and great ice-cream, for instance.

Want to know another one of our favourite things? Gingerbread. The spicy-but-sweet dough can do no wrong in our books, and when it's baked into the shape of some 1930s real estate, well, we might need to sit down for a moment with a mild case of the vapours.

Hop over to A Beautiful Mess for a full ingredient list and some tips on how to construct an edible home of your own.