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Martha Stewart Makes A Gingerbread Downton Abbey; Ruins Christmas For Everybody Else

It is better than anything you'll ever do.

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The promo wheels are whirring ahead of the season five premiere of Downton Abbey, which lands in America on January 4, on schedule to kill all your favourite characters off by mid-Feb.

To celebrate, they asked the world’s smarmiest white collar criminal to make her own Downton Abbey. Out of gingerbread. For Christmas.

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The final mansion, complete with royal icing and gum paste finials, is 1.2 metres wide, 30 cm deep, and 70 cm high.

There are four how-to videos, none of which contain any useful information like how much gingerbread you need, how many hours it takes, or how heavy the final thing is. But if you want to feel like you vastly undelivered this Christmas, yet again, you can watch it all happen below:

For a horrifyingly uninformative “behind the scenes”, head here; for the full template, click on the image below:

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It’s as easy as that, jerk!