A Year Of Gingerbread Houses

Nothing's more enticing than an awesome, lusciously decorated gingerbread house. With designs for holidays and birthdays, these exquisite projects include a cottage, chalet, and two-story house--and customized windows, doors, chimneys, paths, trees, and even lighting add to the charm. Hundreds of helpful process shots; advice on tools and techniques; and patterns, piping templates, and tips on baking and assembling all assure magical results.

What's One Part Baking, One Part Building, and All Parts Holiday Fun? Making gingerbread houses, of course! This book is all you need -- whether you're a beginner or an expert. Professional gingerbread maker Aaron Morgan walks you step-by-step through the process of building a basic gingerbread house, using how-to photos and easy-to-follow instructions. Then you'll feast your eyes on more than 40 award-winning creations, with recipes, techniques, and templates to get you ready for gingerbread building and decorating. Book jacket.

Gingerbread houses are the architectural wonder of the baking world, and every year around the holidays, constructions of all shapes and sizes spring up everywhere. Some have Tootsie Roll mailboxes, shredded-wheat roofs, and gumdrop bells, while others are covered with snow and icicles and have balconies, garlands, and brightly glowing candy glass. But no matter how elaborate a house is, one doesn't have to be an expert baker (or architect) to build one.Gingerbread Houses: A Complete Guide To Baking And Decoratingis for ginger-bread bakers who want to build their first or their fiftieth house. With easy-to-follow instructions, it shows beginners all the basic techniques, including how to assemble the walls and roof without breaking the gingerbread. But it also shows more advanced bakers how to illuminate their house, use a glue gun, and even give last year's house a face-lift. The whimsical, two-color drawings and patterns are a wealth of new ideas for doors, windows, wreaths, bells, mailboxes, lampposts, fences, and trees. And for those who feel the entrepreneurial urge, there's even a section on marketing, packaging, pricing, and selling gingerbread houses. With wit and humor, Christa Currie, champion gingerbread baker, makes building gingerbread houses fun for the entire family.Gingerbread Housesis the perfect stocking stuffer for the baker or architect on your Christmas list.

Chef Morgan, who has worked in the pastry arts for nearly 20 years, takes you through the basics of baking a gingerbread house from scratch. Close-up color photographs will make you feel as if he is standing by your side in the kitchen, helping you with each step. Try your hand at 17 charming, delectable houses that can be easily made by a beginner but won't look like it. Book jacket.

Three children learn to make colorful gingerbread houses for their grandmother. In the process, they experience the joy of creativity and learn to value individual differences. Includes recipe and directions.

Fast and fun no-bake gingerbread houses that are easy to create! Building a fabulous gingerbread house is quick and easy using the patterns and ideas found in Easy Gingerbread Houses. There’s no need for the messy and time-consuming tasks of mixing dough, rolling it out, baking it, and waiting for it to harden. All of the houses in this book are made using graham crackers, cookies, cereal, ice cream cones, frostings, and candy treats. For a fun family activity, create a Sweetheart Cottage, a Cozy Cabin, a Big Red Barn, a Blue Dollhouse, a Mermaid Palace, Santa’s Castle, or even a Tiki Hut. Lisa Anderson is an editor, writer, baker, and stand-up comedienne whose keen sense of humor keeps her thinking outside the box. She has authored two books, and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Gingerbread houses are the architectural wonder of the baking world with constructions of all shapes and sizes popping up everywhere. This charming book is a must for cake decorators, craftspeople and children or adults of all ages. Gingerbread is deliciously tasty, fun and very versatile, and this book is bursting with design and decorating ideas to make and build a house out of gingerbread. With 20 different houses to delight you, Making Gingerbread Houses lets you explore the delicious versatility of gingerbread in the delightful projects, which are easy to make and fun to decorate. Use these gingerbread recipes to get the kids in the kitchen and create some magical memories. It will be sure to delight youngsters and enchant adults alike. Making Gingerbread Houses features color photography throughout of every finished project, and how-to images of the design stages. It couldn't be simpler, just follow the step-by-step guides to making and assembling a beautiful gingerbread house complete with snow-capped roof and pretty piping - a great family project.

The perfect cosy and uplifting romance to curl up with this winter! In Mistletoe Gardens a legend exists: anyone who kisses underneath the mistletoe will be guaranteed another year of love... When local baker Essie Browne discovers that Mistletoe Gardens is to be demolished in January, she’s determined to save the place she loves so much. So Essie proposes building a life size gingerbread house to bring in the crowds...just how hard can it be? Well, quite hard actually. Essie can bake gingerbread blindfolded, but she hasn’t got a clue how to build an actual house with it! She needs help - and fast! Enter local builder, Joss Hallissey. Essie is convinced that with Joss’s help they can pull this off. There’s just one tiny problem: Joss hates Christmas, gingerbread, and... well, just about everything else too. Joss the Grinch makes it clear that her idea is ludicrous and pointless, but he reluctantly agrees to help with her plan. Will the gingerbread house be enough to save Mistletoe Gardens? Or will Essie's chance for a magical kiss under the mistletoe be lost forever? Perfect for fans of Holly Martin, Kat French and Caroline Roberts! Readers LOVE Jaimie Admans! ‘This book really captured my heart and filled it with so much joy, I just couldn't put the book down. I can't wait to get stuck in to more of Jaimie's books.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Highly recommend this as a perfect escapist read, once I had started I couldn’t stop and read it in almost one sitting.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Thank you Jaimie for another amazing book.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Oh wow Jaimie Admans has done it again. I laughed, I cried whilst trying to work out the mysteries within the story.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I loved this book! Clear your diary for an afternoon or two in the garden and get reading...’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Jaimie Admans books always manage to grab you from the first page, and this wonderful book is no exception. I was drawn in by the magical, otherworldly atmosphere of the story.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐