I made the HOME ALONE House as a Gingerbread House... it nearly killed me 

No RU-vidr punishes themselves like Jamie

I love this Jamie! I live 15 minutes from this house and you did it justice. Also, you can melt down crushed lemon drops or a simple sugar candy to pour into the window frames once the second baking is done, then let cool, especially if you are using a Silpat mat.

This channel is so underrated especially this video, the amount of efforts put in this video is humongous 👏👏👏 absolutely need to be watched again in Christmas period to feel the right vibes

For next time, an excellent “glue” is simply melted sugar. It hardens quickly but you do need to be careful about getting burned. Melt the sugar in a large, flat skillet. Dip the edge of one piece of gingerbread in the melted sugar and then quickly stick the pieces together. It hardens and holds very quickly. You can also drizzle the sugar along edges with a spoon.

"I don't think that's the proper way to do it, but that's the only way I can figure out how to do it right now" sums up a significant amount of my adult life.

The end clips are….. 😂 how many years ago? 😁 And i have to say, it’s amazingly done and you have your home made ingredients chef 😉 Merry Christmas & A spectacular New Year Jamie! xxx

Tense AF and yet wonderful! I literally gasped out loud when the front part of the roof fell and survived 😂 this is absolute art. I love it ! Great job Jamie!!!!

The acting at the end was epic Another amazing video Jamie!!!

Tremendous effort!! What a progression from your first one! Well done! My hubby and I made a gjngerbread medieval castle one year, complete with a battle scene. And i swore i would never do it again! You're a trooper hahaha

To make gingerbread at all is not easy. You definitely are quite advanced in your cooking skills! The cliché that if you put 10 000 hours into anything: you will get good at it - is probably not a cliché at all! Well done! And love your videos. You are my fav food channel of them all.

Okay, so I JUST watched your other gingerbread house videos this week and I was going to comment and ask if you were going to make one this year, but I didn’t want to trigger anything bad feelings or PTSD if you know what I mean… I’m SOOO excited to see you made another one - YAY!! I already liked the video without even seeing it! Okay, watching now… 🙂🙃🙂 Edit: INCREDIBLE JOB!! Omg - seriously, that is awesome! So fun to watch!!

That was way less chaotic than I was expecting! It looks amazing! And that home video at the end 👌🤣

Well done!! We do gingerbread houses every year. One thing we’ve found that really helps is using a microplane to file the edges where the pieces meet. So you can make mitered corners on the roof which makes much more stable seams. Hope this helps next year - can’t wait to see your next efforts! Love your channel!

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME JOB, JAMIE!!! You SHOULD admire that masterpiece! 🏫

I have sooo enjoyed your attempts at gingerbread houses. It brought back so many memories of my first one and I had similar problems. After so many pieces falling off and icing getting all over everything I found a magic ingredient and never had another structure failure. It's Wiltons meringue powder. You add it to your icing and will start to harden faster and become rock hard. Hope to see a new gingerbread house this year.

WELL!! I'd say if you had made the house as a competition entry it was worth 100 marks out of 10 if 10 was the maximum. You made an EXCELLENT job of that, Jamie. Really well done!

I don't know how I missed this last year, but DAMN-one of the best episodes ever. Laughing my a$$ off.

I’ve never had a favorite Xmas movie until now. I’ve waited 83 years for this. Merry Christmas to me.

This is epic! Good job man. I also really appreciate the bonus at the end! 🤣 merry Christmas to you.

It started when I was about 12 years old and every year, over Thanksgiving weekend, my mom and I and my siblings (all older than me) would make a gingerbread house with all kinds of candy, gumdrops, cookies, real gingerbread cookie, and we did that every year for the next 20 years and then my mom started doing it with the grandkids every year. It can be a lot of work depending on the detail and the size of the house. Of course every bit of the house was edible but after it sat around for a couple weeks some of the pieces would get stale. We got very inventive with the details. It always turned out really cool looking and it inspired friends to do their own. We always had the best one.

This is first cooking video I've seen that uses Bach as background music while rolling out dough for gingerbread. But it worked. I think Bach would be pleased that his music has found its way into the baking world.

So. It’s July ‘22 and I’m watching this video for the first time. I love how real your exasperation is and all the “f”s scattered throughout the video. The end result is magnificent.

Perfect illustration of "some things are not worth the effort," but let Jamie try. We'll watch.

absolutely nuts! congrats on this ginger bread house. it is one hell of a master piece. good luck moving it...

I'm seeing this after having followed the channel relatively recently... the sheer chaos Jamie creates on a consistent basis is so stressful, but fun to watch (mostly because it's someone ELSE going through the insanity, not me!).

And here I was, so proud of myself for making [yet another batch of] cranberry chutney, buying and grating marzipan, then making gluten-free stollen so my husband won’t feel bad when we tuck into the real stuff tonight at a Holiday dinner. I am exhausted from watching this!!! and also quite happy that we Jews don’t make gingerbread houses or go through all the cookie baking and General Christmas Insanity. But I do love other people and their insanity, and watching you tackle the Home Alone house-with such gusto-and succeed, entertained ever so much. Mazel! 😁🥂🌲Merry Christmas to you and yours.

What a major achievement. That was a lot of work. But it looks AWESOME. You should sell it to a bakery. I think that if I ever do anything like that, I'll just hire a contractor.

oh, man . . . what a wonderful video that takes us along on your frazzled and frenetic journey. the music was perfectly matched, of course. the old video footage at the end was AMAZING!! thank you thank you! 🤎

That's possibly your bravest cooking project yet, Well done! It's not easy doing the simplest houses, but you took it to another level! (I hope it tasted great!)

Wow!!!! I literally couldn't watch at times as I was terrified it was going to break or something. What an amazing achievement!! It's fantastic. Well done you fella!! Xx

Along about the sixth hour of this we see the "Do Or Die" glint in your eye and it's great. I'm impressed. Good job.

Always walk away when you're tired! Great job! I would have never attempted such a project! So kudos to you!

This is amazing!! And I love the nostalgia this movie brings you!!❤

Absolutely precious, beautiful and all other adjectives of like nature!! You did well. Mission accomplished!! 🥰

Dude you totally nailed it!!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽excellent job

I love your gingerbread house, that was quite an undertaking! I'd love to see you try isomalt for windows and caramelized sugar, instead of royal icing, to attach everything. I think you may have better luck with those.

I learned the best gingerbread house hack this year. To assemble the house melt sugar and when caramelized dip the sides of the house in the sugar and quickly assemble. As the sugar quickly hardens it keeps the house perfectly together. No more need to wait for royal icing to harden while praying the house doesn’t collapse. You can always use icing over the caramel to decorate. It’s been life changing especially with small children that want to poke and touch the house before icing has the chance to harden. You did a phenomenal job on the home alone house it’s AMAZING

I’ve just found you and have been binging your videos. You are so real and natural and really funny! Every time you say f$@k, I laugh out loud! 😂Thanks so much! This house is amazing!!

I am thoroughly impressed by your diligence. I would have quit when I cut into the front wall. Another gem video. In fact, I think this is your best 😂😂😂😂

As the season is approaching: if you are attempting another one this year, the Scandinavian way to glue the pieces together is by melted sugar/dry caramel. It is hot as H while dealing with it, by works really well as a glue. 🤶 (Our dough seems different as well, the pieces are generally much thinner).

Royal Icing is the cookie maker's cement for other people trying this use a folded up card table it can be moved and the legs dropped down later. One of the Best Shows What Patience!

this is so incredibly impressive. well done! love the channel

Music from Carmen opera goes just perfectly with struggling scenes. Or maybe some tango music will do. Thank you for showing all the fails because it's everytime situation when people try a new recipe and it looks so easy. Aaaaand then the reality hits

As the season approaches, i look forward to your new gingerbread house for this year, if you make one! that last clip was so nice!

Try again this year? Lol. Good Job.! Try painting the shingles on, then add the snow. Use just enough royal icing to glue, then finish decor.

Yay another gingerbread house video. So happy I was hoping you would !!

Omg! Thank you for the end clip!😂 One day, I plan on taking my son to see The Nutcracker, but I think I'm going to suffer PTSD due to your gingerbread houses. Thank you for these yearly gifts!🎉 You rock!

Well done! Such a huge project, very impressed!

Great job man! You were churning out that icing like it was real cement big guy!

Great job Jamie! The skit at the end was the best!

It’s August, I don’t celebrate Christmas, but man I’m impressed, not the least because you kept on going until it was finished. You could have just eaten the gingerbread and pretended none of this ever happened, but you persevered. Bravo.

I’ve been binge watching since I found you and this one is the most heartwarming and you don’t even have kids… youre like a frazzled first time parent during the holidays… yet this is just purely for our benefits… we are all your kids… awww

It’s SO GOOD you’re probably going to attract the Wet Bandits Happy New Year!!!

The chaotic energy you bring to your cooking is very entertaining.

I’m a channel lurker. This is my favorite video. Great job and excellent work.

The ending was fabulous. Love the acting and dedication

Anyone that puts so much time and commitment into such a project for youtube deserves way more likes and comments to garner more profit. Thank you i wish I had found your channel sooner.

I found your channel today while searching for something else cooking related and have been binge watching your Julia Child series. It'd be cool if you made a second channel to talk about your favorite kitchen tools and maybe even film clean up videos. I love watching cleanup after an epic cooking session!

I love how patient you are despite some circumstances that happen to you while cooking. How do you struggle to get what you want👍🏻

For some reason every year after the holidays are over I start to get a tad bit sad, don’t know why, maybe because the holidays are over? Anyways came across this video because I watch Anti-Chef all the time and I’m so glad I did. I love Home Alone and I love John Hughes❤ this video definitely sparked some joy. Thanks so much Jaime! Happy New Year to you and yours ✨ And to anybody reading this comment, I hope you also have a very happy new year, you deserve it.

Goodness me. I hope if you're doing a gingerbread house for 2023, it's not nearly as stressful. I don't know if MY heart could take it! Great work on that, though. Happy for this front page rec, 2 years later.

You are a rock star! I've only starting watching you and have enjoyed every last thing I've seen. So thank you for entertaining the masses😁 You are a natural. Keep them coming. Thanks Jamie!

Just watched your first 4 eps - the original eps! Kudos to sticking with your mission. SO impressed. Everything is better! Your cooking/baking skills, your kitchen, your editing skills, your music choices. Well done, you.

Can't believe I've watched you make three of these. Covid quarantine has been weird. Great job on this one!

Wow what an epic end result!! Your blood sweat and tears paid off. The clip at the end was precious, too.

Wow, thank you so much! So proud of you for sticking with it. I’m not sure that I could have gone that far with it

So much fun to watch, kudos for not giving up. Be curious to know what you wound up doing with it and how you moved it.

Looks great! It must have been awful to clean your kitchen over and over again. Merry Christmas!

Holy CRAP 😂😂... your antics reminds me of Bill Dance's Outdoor Fishing Show where he makes blunders upon blunders and continues on. Kudos to you my friend. 👏

😂😂😂 awesome , I grew up a few blocks from there . Way to go. Ho ho hoooo Merry x mas. Your first two were serially good tries and better than I could do. You attacked this one like a confident lion. What are ya gonna do next year- the Taj Mahal ❄ 😂

Good job… I laughed out loud 😂 thanks. I did made two smaller gingerbread house this Christmas, yours is much more challenging.

Just seeing this now. LOL. You did it man. Love the home vid. You were made for the Stage. Bravo.

Love the structural cakengineering.

That gingerbread house is amazing!

A year late, but.... H.A. is my fave xmas movie, and this is now my fave anti-chef video yet!! Loved the video at the end. Merry Xmas, 2022!!

Got here off your Instagram reel. Heard the first sentence and knew this was my kind of video. Love home alone, love ginger bread. 10/10 video

I delayed watching bc your last two houses gave me a heart attack! You almost did it again but instead your experience paid off! It’s a marvel! Happy holidays!

the one thing /along many other things) i love about your videos is the (canadian) pronunciation of words like out and house. omg it's just so pleasant to ears.

Oh geez...that last clip reminds me of movies my brother and our friends made as kids 🤣 Merry Christmas! 🎄

Most epic project! BTW, the little critters on the roof you were calling attics are called Dormers.

Man you really know how to live, love watching your shows

So great! just seeing this 'cause I'm addicted to this channel! Don't be so hard on yourself this Christmas!

I love the clip at the end when you were a kid! That’s so awesome. Great job!

For a first time on such a big project , you did great . some tips though if i may , there are mint gummy trees you can get and shredded coconut dyed green is fantastic as ground cover , it looks like grass , alternatively you can get creative with it and paste some together to make trees etc.

Looks amazing! Merry Christmas Jamie, to you and your family.

Awesome job! I really appreciate your channel.

I can't wait to see this year's house.

It's nearly summer and here I am watching an old video of you making a giant home alone gingerbread house.. And I don't regret a single second. Especially the end home movie 😂🎥👌

Whose emotions went all over the place for this? I can’t believe how much I was cringing. I can’t believe how fun it was to see the final product with the lights on. And then he gives us a huge reward with the home movies at the end! Jamie knows how to give everyone who watches a roller coaster ride!!

You have a light heart Jamie. Beautiful

It's snowing for the eleventieth hundred day here in Thunder Bay. Perfect weather for watching this. I've never made a ginger bread house but I'm getting inspired.

That's awesome Jamie, great job!

The hero we need is here.

the slow, painful descent into madness. said it before, but christmas 2022, Gingerbread groverhaus.

Beautiful! Very big win!

This is the best thing ever! Thank you for making my day!!

I’ve been sick for a few days watching this made me laugh!

May try this Fun as always Today I'm baking Peppernotten Peanut butter cookies and soft molasses cookies today I love your courage Music is GREAT! You go the extra mile It's FUN Thank You !.

This was amazing and gives me incentive for this Christmas . There is a beautiful church not far from us that would be fantastic in Gingerbread

When in doubt, resort to CAD - Cardboard Aided Design! "It doesn't make any sense, but it might in the future" has to be a Vonnegut quote.