{"id":1033,"date":"2010-12-20T20:25:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T20:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog1.ardoria.com\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2011-11-23T15:14:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T15:14:33","slug":"this-years-gingerbread-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"This Year&#8217;s Gingerbread House&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the snow we have been getting, it sure does look like Christmas.\u00a0 The house is decorated, gifts are bought, now it is time to start baking.<\/p>\n<p>So with our blizzard like weather last week I decided to make this year&#8217;s gingerbread house.\u00a0 I looked around online and decided that I didn&#8217;t want to try to make something elaborate I wanted to make something simple.\u00a0 Something that wouldn&#8217;t take two weeks to complete!\u00a0 I found a template on Martha Stewart&#8217;s website and also a recipe for making the house from a chocolate cookie dough.\u00a0 I thought that would be easier, why not try it?<\/p>\n<p>Well, that didn&#8217;t work out so good.\u00a0 That cookie recipe just didn&#8217;t work for me.\u00a0 I made them and they just cracked when I took them off the cookie sheet. \ud83d\ude41 \u00a0 So gingerbread it was.<\/p>\n<p>It took me a couple days to get it done&#8230;.thanks to the weather and my running out of eggs!\u00a0 Nevertheless, it is done and here is 2010&#8217;s Christmas Gingerbread House!<a href=\"http:\/\/blog1.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/gingerbread_front.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1033]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1040\" title=\"gingerbread_front\" src=\"http:\/\/blog1.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/gingerbread_front-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"gingerbread_front\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog1.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/gingerbread_angle.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1033]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1041\" title=\"gingerbread_angle\" src=\"http:\/\/blog1.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/gingerbread_angle-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"gingerbread_angle\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog1.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/gingerbread_side.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1033]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1042\" title=\"gingerbread_side\" src=\"http:\/\/blog1.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/gingerbread_side-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"gingerbread_side\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I used egg whites instead of meringue powder to make my icing and it has a hint of yellow to it.\u00a0 Oh well, live and learn!<\/p>\n<p>Next,\u00a0 it&#8217;s time to make\u00a0 Christmas Cookies and I am going to try my hand at making some candy!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the snow we have been getting, it sure does look like Christmas.\u00a0 The house is decorated, gifts are bought, now it is time to start baking. 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