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- Hello, and welcome to a delightful Vlogmas day,
full of gingerbread house baking.
Today, we're doing it competitively.
- Oh no.
- With Jamie and Shaaba.
- I did that as if we have any chance of winning.
(laughing)
- Well - Well, you might, you might.
I'm a real perfectionist,
which scuppers me in most Christmas challenges.
- It takes Jessica a long time.
We should put time limit on it
and then it gives you a fairer advantage.
- Actually, I think Shaaba's quite a perfectionist as well.
- Ah.
- Do you know, I did the personality test recently?
- Oh yes?
- And we watched yours, because I know you did it, too.
You two are the exact same personality types
and we have the exact same personality types.
- Oh my god!
- Which is why you would marry Claudia.
(laughing)
- Let's not bring up that.
That was so unfair.
We're perfectionists.
- That's why we're on the outside edges.
(laughing)
(talk over each other)
- [Jamie] We'll just step out.
- This is just the Jessica and Shaaba show, welcome.
We have two build-your-own gingerbread houses
and we are now gonna spend half an hour building these.
- What if we don't build it? (talk over each other)
- Does that mean if you're not done in half an hour,
and you don't have a roof, you're done.
- Yeah, yeah, exactly. It should be.
- If you don't have a roof, you don't have a roof.
(laughing)
- Who's gonna be like,
who's gonna be like the person in Bake Off
who's like, you have five minutes left!
(laughter)
Tilly's like, okay, I'll step up to that.
- She's coming over.
- She's actually coming over.
Thank you, Tilly, thank you, very good, very good.
It's an oven timer.
- Here she is.
- And go!
- Okay.
- Yeah, put the dog down, woman!
- My goodness.
- No, no, no, no, no.
- How do you nicely open it?
- Wait, don't let them see!
No, I'm kidding.
- Can I eat this?
- No Jamie, you can't do that!
- Can I just?
But look at how many we get.
- So we've got this, which I guess is what we build it on.
- The base.
- Ah!
- The base.
Oh it's all nicely set up there.
- Oh sweeties!
- Amazing icing, this is ready.
- Icing, ready to go.
Okay, important for best results, knead, massage
the icing pouch for one to two minutes,
bringing icing to room temperature,
and making it more adhesive.
Oh, the hair is going up, it means it's serious.
- Like, prepare for assembly.
Okay, we're ready, we're ready.
- Oh god, that does actually smell really good.
- I haven't had gingerbread for years.
- I could not find
a gluten free, sugar free, gingerbread house,
unsurprisingly.
So I cannot partake in the eating.
- Aw, you can try making one.
- See, this is like Bake Off now,
where it's like, is it too soon?
Is it too late?
- We're good, we're ready, I feel it.
- Watch out for dropping bits on the floor
'cause the (indistinct).
- Your resident Hoover, ready for action.
- Tilly's, like, wait.
(laughing)
- I'm just going to see if I can do an opening.
I want to see if I can open, if I can have an opening door
- Okay, Jamie.
- I would not recommend this, guys.
- Oh look, it cracked a bit.
You're gonna hate me.
- Oh look at the roofy.
- I promise not to get angry at you.
- Ta-da!
- Oh my god!
(laughing)
We're going to have an opening door
on our house, apparently.
- I think we should leave it shut, to keep the warmth in.
(laughing)
- I love how he's like, yeah, Jessica, God,
she's a perfectionist and she always adds extra stuff.
- A door - A-dor-able!
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- Do not cut out the windows.
- I was like, let me put a candle inside.
It would look so cute!
- Do you know, we could, like, melt some of the candy
and make, like, little stained glass windows?
- Yes!
- Shaaba's actually in tech. We are building.
- This is an important decision.
How do you open your door?
- This way. No!
I think we need a bigger hole.
(laughing)
(mumbling)
(gingerbread falling)
- You need to hold it.
- Yep.
- We need a bigger hole.
- Yeah, both Jamie and I think we need bigger holes.
(laughing)
This is very hard to squeeze out.
Oh no, it's coming out of another.
- What are you doing?
- It's coming out of another hole.
That was never.
- Claudia has two holes now.
- You need to be patient or you won't let the hole
get any bigger.
(laughing)
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- Oh, that wasn't good pressure.
Whoa, whoa.
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- Okay we have sixteen minutes left.
- Oh no.
- We're doing okay.
- Okay.
Shove it in there or put it in your mouth.
Jessica, 2020.
(laughing)
- What a year.
(laughing)
- Why is it the wrong size?
- It's like, the wrong size.
Maybe the roof will hold it together.
(yelling)
No.
- It could work.
(talking over each other)
(yelling)
(replay yelling)
- You could make a little ivy trail.
- Yeah. Wait.
- Get the grout in there.
- We have been known to be a little disabled, okay?
- You're not, I'm not disabled.
Oh my God. Okay, sorry.
(laughing)
We get to start again.
- I get your life.
- Join this.
- They got the multi-tools out.
- You can use some.
- Oh my Gosh.
- This is serious.
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- Can you see my worm?
(laughing)
- Don't point and laugh.
(laughing)
That's not fair.
(laughing)
- [Jessica] Sorry.
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- I'm quite relaxed actually.
(laughing)
- Can I say how funny I find it
that the control freaks and Jessica and I have meant
that we've gone from being the ones
that were sitting behind not doing anything,
to now being the sole
(laughing)
doers.
- I mean I think the icing is dry at this point.
I do not see the necessity for my hand to be here.
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- I'm still holding this house.
'Cause we have to hold it for five minutes. (beep)
- That's it.
Time is up.
- And let go.
- Yeah, let go.
All right.
- Okay.
Okay.
(cheering)
(laughing)
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- All right.
We've given the houses time to rest.
- They have stayed standing.
- They should stay together.
- They should be now staying together.
I mean, don't touch it.
- Don't poke it.
(laughing) - Pretty sure you just said.
- Don't say it you too.
- I was just going to see if the icing was dry. (laughing)
- And now we have to decorate them.
- Sound like it's a chore.
- Well I just. - This is the fun bit.
- I don't like colors.
I do, I mean I like color on its own.
Surrounded by creme.
- You have more colors than I do.
- Oh I wear lots of colors.
But I never put more than three colors at once
into an outfit.
- We can stick to a color theme if you want.
- Yes, thank you.
That would make me feel better.
- It could just be red, black and white?
- Red, it's gonna be red, black and white.
- I just said that.
Red, black and white.
Fifteen minutes.
- What?
- Oh my goodness.
- No.
- Twenty minutes.
(laughing)
Twenty minutes.
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- Following Jessica's very strick color coordination
of only red, black and white.
- [Jessica] Yep.
- But we haven't got enough space.
We're having to section them.
- Okay, so I'm keeping with our black, red and white theme
and I've decided that the best thing to do
since we have so many holes in our icing bag,
is just to get the icing, get the sweet
and do it this way.
Rather than attempting to pipe.
I think it's going okay.
It's fine, everything's fine.
- [Jamie] Oh, Shaaba has gone rogue with the design.
- [Shaaba] I've decided to massacre our sweets
into tiny discs and I'm putting them on the roof.
- Stick them on the roof.
- I am very upset that Claudia's given us
significantly less time than I wanted for this.
(laughing)
So, this is my stress mode.
- Your little perfectionist heart is crying right now.
- [Shaaba] Jessica, how are you holding up?
- I am also upset Claudia has given us less time
than expected for this. We can do this, we can do this.
- [Shaaba] We can do this. It's fine, it's fine.
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- [Jessica] How are you doing?
- Not very well.
- Stressed.
- We thought we had an advantage when your door broke
but now I'm not so sure.
- [Jamie] And then when you had your little
penis door frame decorations.
- [Jessica] Stop making fun of my penis door.
(laughing)
- It doesn't look like a penis anymore.
It looks like, I don't know.
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- The (indistinct) be carried to the front for judging .
- Can't carry yours on the board, that's cheating.
- Okay.
- Right.
- I'll carry the door.
- Okay.
(laughing)
- Okay. - It may not make it
- Let's go.
(talking over each other)
- Carry it 'cause like, you're not the best with like,
- All right, fine.
- Shaaba be careful, Shaaba be careful.
- It's a big responsibility.
(laughing)
- [Shaaba] Jamie, it's fine. Jamie, it's fine.
Look Jamie, you're stressing me out.
- I'm carrying the door.
(laughing)
- [Jamie] Ta-da.
- [Shaaba] Put it a nice way. (laughing)
- [Jessica] I love it, I love it.
- Which way's the nice way?
- [Jessica] Stop laughing at it.
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- Ta-da.
This is our lovely little house.
I say lovely with great artistic license.
- It has lots of icing.
(laughing)
- We've got melted icicles.
That was intentional, believe it or not.
A door knob.
Little plants on window sills.
- Apparently, this is a porch.
I think it's ugly, but you know.
- Jamie is wrong.
(laughing)
- I did all the beautiful piping work.
- [Shaaba] It's a great skill my love.
- [Jamie] What's this?
- [Shaaba] I think it's supposed to be little fence posts
and like little bushes.
It's like the green and the brown.
- Pot hole.
- [Shaaba] You're a pot hole.
- [Jamie] Thank you.
- [Shaaba] And an autumnal themed roof.
(laughing)
(mumbling)
- [Claudia] Why is it autumnal? It's Christmas.
(laughing)
Claudia.
(laughing)
- Fig leaves.
(laughing)
That's the color pallet.
- Well, we lost.
(laughing)
- Welcome to our beautiful Christmas house.
As you can see, we're a very welcoming
and inclusive family.
So, we have an open door policy.
- It's actually a no door,
It's actually a no-door policy.
(laughing)
- 'Cause we don't want to (indistinct) anyone,
you're all welcome here.
- And those are very hot towels.
(talking and laughing)
- That's our little chimney.
An open door.
And the windows are melting.
- It's an all fun inside.
A lot of bodies, warm, warmth.
So, stuff just started melting.
You will note, however, an impeccable color scheme
of red and white.
Which I think you'll agree,
is particularly Christmasy.
We have some lovely window sills here.
We did not steal the idea from Shaaba.
That was just, you know, happened.
- [Claudia] Very decorative piece above the door.
- Uh huh.
It does not look like penis.
It may have done at one point,
but I fixed it and now it's delightful.
- I think it says, come hither.
- It does.
(laughing and talking)
And also, has a delightful landing strip
for Father Christmas.
- Yep. And a chimney for him to get down into it.
But, if he's too big, he can get through the open door.
But, we're not to judge, you are.
- Yes, please vote for us.
(laughing)
- [Shaaba] Hey.
(laughing)
- Thank you so much for watching.
Please cast your vote in the comments below,
by typing either, Jessy and Claud or Jamie and Shaaba.
- You played the dirt nasty card.
(laughing)
- Buh-bye, bye.
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