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Thursday, December 25th, 2008Gingerbread House of Homemade Charm
Sunday, December 14th, 2008
Homemade gingerbread houses are fun to make at any age.
I am indebted to Elise’s How to Make a Gingerbread House for making my first non-kit and non-graham cracker gingerbread house a success.
Per usual, I swapped whole wheat flour and succanat for the white flour and refined sugars. I also used blackstrap molasses instead of regular molasses.
Another adaptation which turned out to be a lifesaver: using a cardboard six-bottle beer carrier as a structure around which to build the walls and lay the roof. Without this my house would have certainly caved in. It also meant I only had to cut out a cardboard pattern for the roof since for the walls I just placed the carton onto my rolled-out dough and cut around it with a knife.
By the time I finished it was late at night and I didn’t decorate. The next day I elected to keep it the way it was. I like having just the dark brown and bright white.
I constructed it atop a cake platter which worked well. Now it serves as a holiday decoration that I can move as needed.
With leftover dough I made some gingerbread sandwich cookies. Recipe to come!
25 Days of Christmas Gifts Continues
Friday, December 12th, 2008
Thank you, someecards, for explaining why Smorgasbite’s 25 Days of Christmas Gifts marches on.
Introducing: 25 Days of Christmas Gifts
Monday, December 1st, 2008
Smorgasbite is going to celebrate Christmas for the next 25 days, profiling a wide variety of fun, food-related gifts.
What better way to start than with a fresh twist on an advent calendar? It counts down to not only Santa’s arrival but also the perfection of your recipe for cookies to be left next to the fireplace. Don’t worry, I’ll post some recipes.
Christmas Countdown by Royse City, Texas-based artist EvenlySPACED on Etsy.
Easy Christmas Decoration: Anise stars
Saturday, November 29th, 2008
This weekend kicks off holiday decorating.
I enjoy making my home look festive but I’m opposed to buying a lot of things that I’ll either have to store somewhere until next year or, let’s be honest, end up throwing away.
The above windowsill is festively adorned with:
A glass salad dressing bottle, emptied, de-labeled and washedWhole anise stars (from the grocery spice section) A red/white gingham ribbon
Assembled, you have a pretty Christmas decoration. Come January, each of its parts is easily re-used for another purpose.