Friday, December 31, 2010

christmas baking - gingerbread afternoon

i love christmas. let me rephrase that, i love the christmas season. a season of giving, creating and baking. mmm baking!

for the last four christmases i have devoted an afternoon to baking gingerbread creations, the first afternoon i did on my own when we lived in tamworth. it was an afternoon of solitude and bliss, i always forget the OD on gingerbread dough each year!



the second time was also in tamworth, i was 8 months pregnant and my sister Cat was over to celebrate with us. I think I gingerbreaded her out that year.

2009 christmas was celebrated back in perth, so both my sisters and mum came over to gingerbread it up. and in 2010 we did it all over again but this time we had our house guests Ingo & Kate playing with us and my BFF Sandy with her boys Tasman & Ryan
over to create some christmassy goodness. I premade the dough (4 batches of gingerbread goodness!) that morning whilst samuel napped.

making the dough in the morning was a smart move. we had people in the house by 230pm and started rolling out dough and cutting christmas figurines. the new addition this year - a dashhound cookie (not christmassy but very 2010 in spirit!). we had bowls of silver cashews, mini m&ms and sprinkles on the table, trays for the finished masterpieces and piping bags full of lemoney white icing and green icing.

i really have no idea how many cookies we created in the end but this is a snapshot of some of the finished products.

side note : many of these biscuits were eaten by us and given to friends and family as christmas presents.
2011: will this be the year that i have a gingerbread making afternoon PLUS a gingerbread house making evening? oh imagine the creativity that could be had!!

all of these photos were taken by my younger younger sister k-sara xxx

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