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The 2025 National Gingerbread House Competition
The Omni Grove Park Inn & Spa
Asheville, North Carolina
Gingerbread house in the lobby of Disney's Grand Floridian Resort on Saturday, December 3, 2016 in Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida.
One of the things I love the most, on the days before Christmas, is making gingerbread cookies.
The recipe, my favourite ever, comes from the book Merry Christmas, by Csaba Dalla Zorza.
The box is from the lovely shop Giuggiole, in Rieti.
I'm not sure if it looks like the little gingerbread men are trying to escape from the box or trying to get in...
So cute, had to build this! It's from the Friends Advent Calendar set about a year ago if I'm not mistaken...
My little gingerbread houseys. Lots of peppermints and chocolates, cookies and biscuits... and cotton candy from the chimneys.
They are made of polymer clay.
The tallest house is 2.5 cm tall
Kaya's gingerbread house. Not only was it beautiful, it made it on Explore! (at least for a few days)
Exhibition "Gingerbreadmania 2019", Tallinn.
Traditional walk with Flickr friends in the Old Town of Tallinn.
The annual gingerbread house competition at Ramapo High School. As I rarely have my real camera at work, I used my phone.
Gingerbread (or in Norwegian, 'pepperkake') is a quintessential feature of the Norwegian holiday season. Minnesota, with its large Norweigan-American heritage, gets in on the fun, too! The Norway House in Minneapolis hosts their annual Gingerbread Wonderland. This year it has about 250 structures created by professional bakers as well as gingerbread enthusiasts of all ages and abilities. The rules are simple: the structure must be made of gingerbread, and all parts of the display (except for any fairy lights) must be edible.
So to round of the run up to Christmas, here's 3 photos of Mrs GA's home baking. This time it's Gingerbread cupcakes with plain buttercream icing and decorated with tiny gingerbread men (who look like they're snow diving).
Possibly one of the nicest tasting cupcakes she's ever made!
Happy Christmas Eve everyone, hope you're all excited :-)
Inspired by www.flickr.com/photos/leemei/4193872650/in/faves-aiclay/
It measures at 1.1cm in length!
Exhibition "Gingerbreadmania 2019", Tallinn.
Traditional walk with Flickr friends in the Old Town of Tallinn.
Considered by many to be the most magnificent residence in all of New York City, Brooklynโs Gingerbread House is one of the finest representations inside and out of the Arts and Crafts style still standing in America.
Here are the facts you ought to know:
โ built in 1916-17
โ designed by architect James Sarsfield Kennedy (who also designed the Picnic House in Prospect Park and the boathouse for the Crescent Club, an athletic facility now part of Fort Hamilton High School, across the street)
โ commissioned by shipping magnate Howard E. Jones and his wife Jessie
โ official name: The Howard E. and Jessie Jones House
โ also referred to as: The Mushroom House, The Hansel & Gretel House, The Witch House
โ rooms: 6 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, full basement
โ living area: 5,743-square-feet
โ material: uncut stone
โ listed at $10.5 million in 2014 (down from $13 million in 2010)
The home was actually a cottage house to a larger, pink, Mediterranean-style mansion that sat across the street on Narrows Avenue. That mansion was torn down in the 1950s or 1960s, and five homes now stand in its place.
There are three bedrooms on the second floor, a two-bedroom guest suite on the first floor overlooking the pond, fountain and gardens, and a bedroom (labeled the chauffeurโs room on the floor plan) in the basement.
The master bedroom is about 800 square feet, and has five walk-in closets, a powder room and two stone terraces flanking a fireplace.
The den is about 650 square feet, the kitchen is 570 square feet and features 50 feet of countertops, there is also a 20-foot-long butlerโs pantry.
The basement includes a recreational room/theater, workshop and wine cellar. Despite the local legend, there is no bowling alley.
On the southern edge of the house, the hearth (chimney) rises three stories high and serves three wood-burning fireplaces.
The roof was designed to imitate the thatch roofs of English rural cottages, but is actually made from asphalt shingles laid randomly โ there are no straight lines.
The parlor room has wood-beamed ceilings and carved woodwork.
Floors are made of Burmese mahogany.
Stained glass windows are scattered about the home and have been preserved by the homeowners.
Ceiling panels in the dining room are hand painted.
There is an original turning platform in the garage โ to turn a parked car around, so it wouldnโt have to be backed out of the garage.
The 4th owners, the Fishmans bought the home in 1985 for less than $1 million. They did not make changes to the floorplan, but did upgrade bathrooms, the kitchen, appliances and wiring. They also added central air conditioning, rebuilt the roof and added tile floors. As a young boy, Jerry Fishman attended Fort Hamilton High School, which sits across the street from the gingerbread home. He recalls: โI had to have the house. I flunked English because I was looking out the school window at the house all the time.โ Obsessed with the house, Fishman took his future wife Diane to see it on their very first date.
The Fishmans put the house up for sale in 2010 for $13 million. In 2014 the listing was lowered to $10.5 million.
The house became an official city landmark in 1989 โ it was the first building in Bay Ridge to be designated a landmark.
Tired of people constantly asking to take a peek inside the house, the owners removed the doorbell back in the 1980โs. They have not re-installed it since.
I handpainted this tea kettle using a Dianna Marcum design. It features gingerbread cookies and baking items. The background is barn red and will go with most kitchen decor. The kettle can also be used as a unique candle holder.
Gingerbread cakes (in German: "Lebkuchen") for sale on the famous Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt, Nuremberg, Franconia (Bavaria)
Some background information:
Lebkuchen are traditional German baked Christmas treats, somewhat resembling gingerbread. They were invented by medieval monks in Franconia in the 13th century.
Local history in Nuremberg relates that emperor Friedrich III held a Reichstag there in 1487. At this Reichstag he invited the children of the city to a special event where he presented Lebkuchen bearing his printed portrait to almost four thousand children. Historically, and due to differences in the ingredients, Lebkuchen are also known as honey cakes (Honigkuchen) or pepper cakes (Pfefferkuchen). Traditionally, the cookies are usually quite large and may be four and a half inches in diameter if round, and larger if rectangular.
The ingredients usually include honey, candied fruits, nuts including almonds, hazelnuts, and walnuts, as well as spices such as aniseed, coriander, cloves, ginger, cardamom and allspice. However every producer has his own recipe, which he keeps a strict secret. Most often the Lebkuchen are coated with dark chocolate or sugar icing, but some are left uncoated and just decorated with almonds instead.
Lebkuchen dough is usually placed on a thin wafer base called Oblate. This was an idea of the monks, who used unleavened communion wafer ingredients to prevent the dough from sticking. The proportion or content of the type of nuts and fruits often determines the value of the Lebkuchen. The ones of the highest quality are made without flour and called Elisen-Lebkuchen.
Since 1996, Nuremberg Lebkuchen (Nรผrnberger Lebkuchen) is a Protected Designation of Origin and must be produced within the boundaries of the city. Although the Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt doesnโt take place due to the pandemia since two years, visitors can still buy this sweet delicacy in many shops all over the city during the cold season.
Some more information about the Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt:
The Christkindlesmarkt in Nuremberg is a world-famous Christmas market, which takes place on the Main Market Square, the central square in Nurembergโs old town, and on the adjoining squares and streets. It always starts on Friday before the first Sunday of Advent and usually ends on 24th December.
Despite intense investigations carried out by several historians and people interested in local history, the origins of the Christkindlesmarkt are unknown. The oldest piece of evidence relating to it is a box made of coniferous wood. The following inscription can be found on its bottom: "Regina Susanna Harรdรถrfferin from the virgin Susanna Eleonora Erbsin sent to the Kindles-Marck in 1628." Nowadays this box is in the possession of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg.
However historians have reasons to believe that the Christkindlesmarkt has its origins in traditional sales at the weekly market between 1610 and 1639 and by this time gradually evolved into an independent market. Originally, the market opened on Thomasโ Day, 4th December, but due to the large number of visitors, opening day was rescheduled to the Friday before the start of Advent in 1973 and has remained so ever since. The years between 1939 and 1948 were the only years in the Christmas marketโs history, in which it didnโt take place. No need to say, that this multi-annual closure was caused by the Second Word War and the tremendous destructions in Nurembergโs old town induced by allied bombing raids.
Every year the Christkindlesmarkt is opened with a prologue by the Christkind, which she recites from the gallery of the Church of our Lady. In several European countries the Christkind is a Christmas angel and traditional female gift-bringer. The Nuremberg Christkind is elected every second year from sensible girls aged between 16 and 19. Initially a large number of competitors enter via the Internet these days. But in the end itโs still a jury, which chooses the next Christkind out of six finalists.
There are about 200 wooden stalls on the Christkindlesmarkt. Among other things visitors of the can buy the small, but very tasty traditional Nuremberg roast sausages, spicy gingerbread, fruit loaves, bakery goods and sweets, mulled wine, flaming fire tongs punch, typical Christmas articles such as Christmas tree angels, cribs, Christmas tree ornaments and candles, toys as well as arts and crafts products. Favourite souvenirs include "Nuremberg Plum People", which are little figures made from prunes and walnuts.
On the Hans Sachs Square near the Hauptmarkt thereโs another market, which is mainly aimed at children, the so-called Childrenโs Christmas. It includes some very beautiful traditional carnival rides and a tent, where children can meet Santa Claus.
And on the Guildhall Square just north of the Main Market Square the Christmas Market of Nuremberg's sister cities adds some international flair. With a wide range of indigenous arts and crafts, stalls from Nuremberg's twin cities resp. sister cities, such as Prague (Czech Republic), Glasgow (Scotland), Venice (Italy), Nice (France), Krakow (Poland), Antalya (Turkey), Kharkiv (Ukraine), Atlanta (USA), Skopje (Macedonia) and Shenzhen (China) take visitors on a journey around the world.
So if you want to take a trip to Nuremberg during Advent season, I can highly recommend it. But donโt forget to book your hotel early enough, as the city is always crowded with tourists from all quarters at that time.
A Merry Christmas 2021 and a Happy New Year 2022 to all of you! Have a great festive season together with your families and friends! Stay sane, healthy and fairly protected by vaccination.
Our daughter made a batch of delicious gingerbread cookies and decided to decorate them with icing. They were all different and very cool. This was one of my favourites.
After building my Gingerbread Castle, I had a lot of Medium Nougat parts left over so I decided to put them to good use! What better than an upscaled Minifig!
I'd like to thank Nicolas Teeuwen for photographing my MOC at BrickCon earlier this year...
The Magic, The Memories, and You, to my surprise, has been one of my favorite additions to Disney World this past year. It was fun seeing it the first time over the summer, and a nice little surprise to see the extra Christmas themed sections added when I saw it again last week. While I think the candy cane wrapping was my favorite addition, the gingerbread overlay is pretty cool too. Plus, it stays on the castle longer, so its easier to get a good exposure of! This was also the night of my first ever Christmas Party, so that made it a little easier to get some good shots from Main Street without the huge crowds.
Only FIVE days left until Christmas! Hope everyone is having a great week!
In the beginning, I was only trying to enlarge the original Gingerbread House from Lego, but step by step it evolved into something more original and creative!
One side shows what the House will look like when complete, the other shows the actual construction, directed by two creative pastry chefs!
The annual gingerbread house competition at Ramapo High School. As I rarely have my real camera at work, I used my phone.
When was gingerbread first made in the shape of a person? In 1588 when Queen Elizabeth decorated gingerbread men to look like her favorite courtiers.
Gingerbread Cupcakes topped with Cinnamon Frosting and tiny Gingerbread Men. From Martha Stewart Cupcakes