With all the snow we have been getting, it sure does look like Christmas. The house is decorated, gifts are bought, now it is time to start baking.
So with our blizzard like weather last week I decided to make this year’s gingerbread house. I looked around online and decided that I didn’t want to try to make something elaborate I wanted to make something simple. Something that wouldn’t take two weeks to complete! I found a template on Martha Stewart’s website and also a recipe for making the house from a chocolate cookie dough. I thought that would be easier, why not try it?
Well, that didn’t work out so good. That cookie recipe just didn’t work for me. I made them and they just cracked when I took them off the cookie sheet. 🙁 So gingerbread it was.
It took me a couple days to get it done….thanks to the weather and my running out of eggs! Nevertheless, it is done and here is 2010’s Christmas Gingerbread House!
I used egg whites instead of meringue powder to make my icing and it has a hint of yellow to it. Oh well, live and learn!
Next, it’s time to make Christmas Cookies and I am going to try my hand at making some candy!?
