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Monday
"Gingerbread" house
My first gingerbread house is ready!
This is not technically a gingerbread house, as it is made with shortbread cookie recipe instead of gingerbread, because I wanted it to be light colored, instead of brown. I do not recommend this dough though, as the shortbread is so fragile, the house was kind of hard to put together, my roof broke in half, and had to do repair it (when a cookie breaks, the easiest way to fix things, besides eating it, is to put few drops of royal icing as a glue, and stick the two pieces together carefully, and let it dry over night. It will not even show it was broken ;) ), so I think it is better to go with the traditional gingerbread recipe, or for a light colored house with basic sugar cookie recipe.
I had so much fun making and decorating it! If you have some free time, I strongly recommend you make one yourself. You will love it! I especially enjoyed finding and buying all the candy, it was the perfect excuse to wonder around all candy stores and stock up on lots and lots of fun candy. Much more than I needed for this small house. I guess I will have to eat it now.
:)
I also put a Christmas tree inside of the house. I love seeing it though the heart shaped windows.
Love the little dots of color in the "tiles" I used for the roof, I was so happy to find those candy melts.
This is the back side of the house.
And this is to give you an idea of the size of the house. I really like the proportions of it. Isn't it cute?
I cut out the dough for this house by hand, using a beautiful template that Marian form Sweetopia.net was so kind to share. She makes the most amazing cookies I ever saw, and is my main inspiration, also the reason I started making cookies and this house too. Thank you, Marian!
Hope you all are having a great time preparing for the arrival of Santa. Can't wait to see what I get!
This is not technically a gingerbread house, as it is made with shortbread cookie recipe instead of gingerbread, because I wanted it to be light colored, instead of brown. I do not recommend this dough though, as the shortbread is so fragile, the house was kind of hard to put together, my roof broke in half, and had to do repair it (when a cookie breaks, the easiest way to fix things, besides eating it, is to put few drops of royal icing as a glue, and stick the two pieces together carefully, and let it dry over night. It will not even show it was broken ;) ), so I think it is better to go with the traditional gingerbread recipe, or for a light colored house with basic sugar cookie recipe.
I had so much fun making and decorating it! If you have some free time, I strongly recommend you make one yourself. You will love it! I especially enjoyed finding and buying all the candy, it was the perfect excuse to wonder around all candy stores and stock up on lots and lots of fun candy. Much more than I needed for this small house. I guess I will have to eat it now.
:)
I also put a Christmas tree inside of the house. I love seeing it though the heart shaped windows.
Love the little dots of color in the "tiles" I used for the roof, I was so happy to find those candy melts.
This is the back side of the house.
The icicles were hard to make, and it still did not come right. I guess i will just have to make another house. To practice, you know.
And this is to give you an idea of the size of the house. I really like the proportions of it. Isn't it cute?
I cut out the dough for this house by hand, using a beautiful template that Marian form Sweetopia.net was so kind to share. She makes the most amazing cookies I ever saw, and is my main inspiration, also the reason I started making cookies and this house too. Thank you, Marian!
Hope you all are having a great time preparing for the arrival of Santa. Can't wait to see what I get!
Friday
Monday
Hockey themed custom cookies
Had so much fun making those custom hockey themed cookies. Because I could only find a jersey shaped cookie cutter, I had to make all the rest of the cookies by hand cutting the shapes. It was a lot of work, but I enjoyed it.
I do not know anything about hockey, and had to do some research. But if you are a hockey fan, what do the numbers on the jerseys, 9, 99, and 4 stand for? This should be easy ;)
Sunday
Obsessed with cookies
Exciting news!
I got so much into making cookies, that I started thinking I might have to sell them, as we really cannot eat as many as I am making, and would love to share them with others! So, Askanam opened an Etsy store (click here for link) , where you can order your custom cookies! I feel so much more motivated when I have a precise goal and theme for my cookie baking, so I am very excited about this. Already have a few orders!
Here are some of the cookies I made lately, grey and pink, girl themed cookies for baby Brielle
The man in the moon and star are my favorite cookies from this set.
I got so much into making cookies, that I started thinking I might have to sell them, as we really cannot eat as many as I am making, and would love to share them with others! So, Askanam opened an Etsy store (click here for link) , where you can order your custom cookies! I feel so much more motivated when I have a precise goal and theme for my cookie baking, so I am very excited about this. Already have a few orders!
Here are some of the cookies I made lately, grey and pink, girl themed cookies for baby Brielle
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