Adventures in baking

[heliopausa]

This comes to you from a laptop perched on a kitchen table right next to the flour packet! and not six inches from the rolling pin --Christmas baking is in progress.  Not that I'm doing a great deal, because there's just two of us here, but:

I made runesnspoons' family traditional chocolate biscuits!  I can report that they are easy to make and lovely to look at, with their crunchy crinkly surface and a dusting of white across the brown - and give a generous six dozen biscuits per batch.  Thank you, runesnspoons!  (now to try to attach a picture.  no.failed again.  DW seems only to want images with a URL, not ones just from my pictures file,or in this case direct from the camera. I'll put them on LJ.)

And then I made gingerbread--not a gingerbread man, alas.  I scoured the town, and couldn't find a cutter anywhere - and didn't feel like artistically hand-cutting a dozen or more gingerbread men - so I made stars and hearts instead.  And they worked so well that today I am ambitiously making a Gingerbread House!!  The first section is in the oven as I type.

[time passes]

Well, this has been enormous fun!!  A learning experience, definitely :D and the house is not a thing of beauty, and won't be a joy forever, but... well, it was fun making it. I hope they like it at work tomorrow.  Now I'd like to make one for two lovely older women we know, and for the party we're invited to Christmas Eve.  But I'll probably run out of energy before then.

Over on LJ, I'll post a couple of gingerbread house pictures-one in the making stage, and one of the nearly finished product - I'll sift icing sugar snow last thing before work tomorrow.

Comments

[redsnake05]

That recipe does look good. Four eggs must keep them wonderfully moist. I am very impressed that you made a house! I always think they look so amazing.

[heliopausa]

Mine came out crunchy, with a slight, toothsome chewiness in the interior! But my oven here is slow, so I gave them a longer cooking time.It seems to be a very forgiving recipe, which is exactly the kind I need. :)

[transposable_element]

My daughter and I made gingerbread yesterday! We also didn't have the "person" cookie cutter, so we made I think three ginger people by hand, and for the rest of the dough we made geometric shapes and used some leaf-shaped cutters. Then we decorated with far too much icing.

[heliopausa]

Making them by hand is the best way, I think - lots of room for expression! :) Did you make them portraits? Have they been eaten already?