Sunday, December 27, 2009

(daring baker's) home for the holidays

The December 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to you by Anna of Very Small Anna and Y of Lemonpi. They chose to challenge Daring Bakers’ everywhere to bake and assemble a gingerbread house from scratch. They chose recipes from Good Housekeeping and from The Great Scandinavian Baking Book as the challenge recipes.


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This post is going to be short and sweet. This time of the year is from now on much, much busier. That's because this is the time last year that my little one was born. She's turning one day after tomorrow. So Christmas may be over but I still have a million things to do.

I chose the Good Housekeeping recipe. I doubled it and the kids made gingerbread cookies with the rest. My template is one from Martha Stewart's webpage which I will link to when I get a chance. Oh and I used a Chocolate Buttercream to stick down all the candies as it was left over from making the Little One's Birthday cake. It was my first ever gingerbread house from scratch and it was a lot of fun. I kind of felt like a kid again making this. Thanks Anna & Y for choosing such a fun challenge!


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21 comments:

  1. Your house is darling! I love the details, especially the thatched roof! Great job!

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  2. Hi! Thank you for the comment, the Daring Bakers are so welcoming!

    Your gingerbread house is so cute, I love the thatched shredded wheat roof. I'll be sure to check you blog again soon!

    Luce

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  3. Happy Birthday to your little one =D. The house looks amazing! Happy Holidays!

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  4. Great colors! The chocolate frosting on the roof looks delicious.

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  5. I love the shreaded wheat roof and the little hershey peppermint kisses are so cute as your decorations!! Also, it's a great shape too! :)

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  6. Totally adorable house! Happy Birthday to your wee one!!

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  7. Nice job on your house. Your little runt will want to help make one next year.

    I'll leave it open on mine... it's good to keep people wondering and slightly scared :)

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  8. Happy 1st Birthday to the little one! I love your house.. the shredded wheat roof is especially attractive!

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  9. Your house is so beautiful! You've (almost) inspired me to try another one. One that I don't smash into a million pieces!

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  10. The house is totally cool! I love the roof!

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  11. Adorable! I love the shredded wheat roof!

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  12. Great job! I like the chocolate icing for the decorations. It gives it a very unique feel.

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  13. Cute! I love your little wheat roof! Have a wonderful first birthday party. So fun!

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  14. Your roof is just fab! Is that shredded wheat, how clever!! Great job :)

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  15. Beautiful, I love the roof and the decorations.
    The pic of the baby is so cute.

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  16. Hi Kristen:
    Love your gingerbread house by the way! We almost used strawberry mini shredded wheats on the roof but weren't sure if the birds should eat the strange substance that is the frosting - I am not convinced people should either but I am not eating plain shredded wheat either!
    Thanks for the heads up on the blog checking lines! I had no idea what you were talking about and had to do some careful reading!
    Thanks,
    Amy

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  17. What a cute gingerbread house! Happy birthday to your little one - hope you get some time to relax in the new year :)

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  18. What a festive house. Congrats to you finding the time to complete the challenge during a hectic time of year, made more hectic with preparing for your little one's all important first birthday. Happy belated birtthday.

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  19. Love the roof! It's a very nice little house! I double mine as well so I could make gingerbread men for my kids too, that way they would let me decorate my house without them asking every minute "Can I help?"

    Happy 2010!

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