Gingerbread playing cards

I’ve made a gingerbread domino and gingerbread scrabble. I’ve made gingerbread cards too. I have to made a gingerbread roulette and one-armed bandit and I can open a gingerbread casino :). Cards are for lazy ones. I’ve made them from a pepparkakor’s dough (I guess it’s the only one ready made dough I use). They are easy and fast to prepare – you have to roll the dough, cut the shapes you like and they are ready after 8 minutes of baking!

Gingerbread sleigh

I don’t have time for taking photos of my gingerbreads but today it was snowing for the first time this year and I HAVE TO post here my Santa Claus vehicle :). Sleigh are made of gingerbread. I decorated it with red sugar and refined sugar. Skids are decorated with silver, candy balls. There is a seat for Santa Claus, but I haven’t got Santa so he was replaced by bag with gifts.

Let’s start icing gingerbreads (pt. 2)

In this year my gingerbreads are unusually non-coloured. Before ‘gingery frenzy’ I’ve bought new colouring stuff and now they’re laying forgotten in the kitchen :). And obstinately I ice my gingerbreads white and blue. But, there are still many gingerbreads left to ice, so maybe I will put some ‘crazy’ colours on them…

Spiced Almond Wafers

SPICED ALMOND WAFERS

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, room temperature

1 1/2 cups packed dark-brown sugar

2 large eggs

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger

1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

1/4 cup sliced blanched almonds

Mix together flour, soda and salt in the bowl. Butter and sugar mix until it’s fluffy using mixer on medium speed. Slow down the mixer, add eggs and spices. Divide flour into three ‘pieces’ and add it succesively. Wrap the batter into the foil and let it stay in the fridge for at least one and half our.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees (F). Roll out the batter and cut out 5cm x 5cm squares. Lay them on the baking tray covered with greaseproof paper. On every cookie lay 3 or 4 almond flakes and gently push them into cookies. Before baking put the baking tray with cookies into the fridge.
When the batter is wrapped in foil it can stay in the fridge even for a few weeks.

Gingerbread scrabble

The time for gingerbreads has come. People want more and more gingerbreads and I am preparing for the Christmas Fair. I’ve started with gingerbread scrabble. I’ve used the recipe for gingerbread domino. I’ve rollen the daugh 3mm thick and cut them into 2cm x 2cm using a ruler. Icing them isn’t complicated :).

Pictures of gingerbreads and other iced cookies you can find in “PAINTED WITH ICE”. There’ll be only pictures, without any words and I hope it make the searching and looking for patterns easier. So, if you want to look at my patterns and use them – just go there and do it :).