Merry Christmas Everyone! This is the new Gingerbread House...each year the boys say this is the best house yet. I do think it is a cute little cottage. But, I am not sure it is the best one. I did do a few things differently this year. I used cocoa in the dough to make part of the dough a chocolate … [Read more...]
Gingerbread House 2016
Hannah is my sweet God daughter. We started building gingerbread houses when she was only 5 years old. Every year I would let her pick the home we would build. Each year she would pick more and more difficult projects, but still getting better and better. Hannah and I just … [Read more...]
Building a Small Gingerbread House
I got this great little cookie cutter at Target. They are so cute, cuts the whole house in one cut. It makes a cookie house just like the one at they sale at Williams and Sonoma. It works so well...love it! This is a great idea for Christmas gifts. They come out so cute. I have a recipe for … [Read more...]
Gingerbread House
Well...The Christmas season has begun. The tree is decorated, the house is decorated, the yard is lit up like the Griswold's, the Christmas music is playing, the Christmas cards are in the mail and the Gingerbread House has been completed. Wheweeee I now feel like I can enjoy the season. This year I … [Read more...]
How to Make a Gingerbread House
Merry Christmas.....This is this years creation. Hannah and I made our annual gingerbread houses this year. Always seems like Christmas after I have completed this activity. Hannah is my sweet God daughter. We have been making gingerbread houses for many years since she was 5 years old. Now that she … [Read more...]
Christmas Gingerbread House
I wish you could be here, stop on by the house smells so wonderful the christmas music is playing loudly in the back ground...lovely. I love gingerbread houses....why it brings back such sweet memories. My sweet little granny would make one each year for Christmas. After lunch on Christmas Day we … [Read more...]
Log Cabin Gingerbread House
Isn't this a great ginger bread house? See I have this sweet, wonderful girl in my life her name is Hannah. I was not lucky enough to have a little girl of my own, she is my God child. When she was just a weee little thing she and I started making gingerbread houses. Each year after Thanksgiving … [Read more...]
Tiny Gingerbread Houses
This came out so cute...These are kinda like the one I put in the bake shop large house, I posted yesterday but these do not have as much detail. I took the same pattern I used on the large house and reduced it some where around 75-78%. I made one for each place setting. Cute...Cute!! It takes a … [Read more...]
Gingerbread Houses
I can remember as a child my grandmother making gingerbread houses. I was just amazed by them each year. Not only did they look beautiful but they had the smell of Christmas, sweet and spicy. After Christmas she would let us eat them. Yuk! Is what I think now but oh my when I was a kid that was … [Read more...]
Gingerbread Men Recipe
I have had fun with these...I have a huge gingerbread man cutter...but the darn thing is too large for my commercial oven. Saw it on food network years ago ordered the large and the SMALL one. Oh my goodness the small takes a whole sheet pan to bake. It is huge ~ the large is the size of a small … [Read more...]
Ready… Set…. Decorate…..
I am ready are you? I am, I am, I have the Christmas tree up, lit and decorated. I have the wreaths on the front door. I have the Christmas music playing. I just love that part smile, smile. I have my Christmas cards completed and ready to mail out to all corners of the world. Got my … [Read more...]