So as you may have noticed from all my tweets I am hosting a Christmas gingerbread house link up.
Jaime from Jaime's Kitchen and I were saying on twitter that we would like to try a gingerbread house this Christmas and we thought we should share our journey with you all and give you the chance to join in. At this point we asked Jude from A Trifle Rushed to join us as she has been making wonderful Gingerbread houses all year round you can see them here. With this in mind we plan to do a link up of seasonal houses throughout 2013 - Valentine's, Easter, Summer and Halloween so don't worry if you didn't manage to join in this time.
So without further ado here is the first seasonal gingerbread link up.
Jaime from Jaime's Kitchen and I were saying on twitter that we would like to try a gingerbread house this Christmas and we thought we should share our journey with you all and give you the chance to join in. At this point we asked Jude from A Trifle Rushed to join us as she has been making wonderful Gingerbread houses all year round you can see them here. With this in mind we plan to do a link up of seasonal houses throughout 2013 - Valentine's, Easter, Summer and Halloween so don't worry if you didn't manage to join in this time.
So without further ado here is the first seasonal gingerbread link up.
Elizabeth from Elizabeth's Kitchen is my co-host for the No Waste Food Challenge and she has made this absolutely amazing Shetland Pepperkakehaus. It is so intricately iced. I dream of one day icing this well!
Chele at the Chocolate Teapot has created this beautiful snow cottage. The snowmen were inspired by the John Lewis advert and are so cute! Chele also used gelatine for her glass windows as well as making snow covered tree meringues.
This next house is by Laura from How to Cook Good Food. This is Laura's first gingerbread house and she said she thoroughly enjoyed the sticking and decorating, plus her kids now think she is amazing. Yay!
One of my twitter followers Becca @daintydisco sent me the photo of her Gingerbread House. I especially like the snow on the edges of the windows and the happy Santa to greet you at the house.
Next up we have the lovely Laura from More than a fruticake, she has made these adorable mini houses. I really want to try making some little houses I think they would make perfect gifts.
Claire from Foodie Quine did a wonderful post on making different things instead of the traditional Christmas cake. One of the items was this lovely gingerbread house including a chocolate finger fence and a sprout on the chimney!
Sam Hoey from Sam's Kitchen made these completely adorable and very precisely iced gingerbread bird houses.
Next up we have co-host Jude from A Trifle Rushed and her fantastic Polar Gingerbread House. Jude has been making gingerbread houses all year with her daughter and is perfecting her lovely glass windows and decorating.
Greg and I had great fun making an alternative winter solstice gingerbread Stonehenge.
Susan from A little bit of heaven on a plate created this bejeweled colourful house last year and similar to my experience Susan explained just how patient you have to be to make a gingerbread house.
One of my oldest blogger friends Karen from Lavendar and Lovage made this fantastic house with an extra fluffy marshmallow roof, ginger trees and a little tea light inside. I especially like the bright candy canes.
Jaime from Jaim's Kitchen whose idea it was to create a link up has made this gorgeous snowy house. I adore the stained glass window on the front and the effect of the dusted chocolate buttons for the roof tiles.
Here is my little cosy cottage. I had to be very patient to make this and learnt that it is best done in several stages over a few days. I'm really looking forward to making some different themed houses this year to match the seasons.
Do remind me if I missed one off and I will add it on! Thank you to everyone who joined in the link up and we look forward to making more themed houses with you this year.
