Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Gingerbread and Chocolate!

Edited: I added another photo of several more of the boots I made as gifts. Added hot chocolate with the Lindt chocolates.
Sorry, I haven't had a chance to post for awhile. The "bakery" has been in full gear making up for lost time. I managed to finish 19 kinds of cookies and 2 batches of candy.

Yesterday, I decorated my Martha Stewart gingerbread snowflakes. This is Martha's recipe and it's absolutely delicious. The snowflakes are 7 inches across. My favorite part is decorating them with Royal Icing and sprinkling with coarse sugar or edible glitter....you know how much I love glitter and now I can eat it too. Not much flavor but oh so pretty.

If you'd like to see the recipe for the gingerbread, let me know and I'll post it.



I did manage a few of these for gifts. Aren't they just the cutest? The template was designed by Lauren Meader for Papertrey. The boot is actually quite large so I filled it partially with paper shreds before adding the Lindt chocolates. I used my Janome Sew Mini to zig-zag stitch the toes and heels of my boot with some scraps of Basic Grey Dasher paper. The cute tag was made using Papertrey's Holiday Tag collection. I punched the white layer with SU's 1-3/4 inch punch and the Basic Grey layer with the scalloped circle punch. A sweet gift in no time at all. BTW, the download for the boot is absolutely FREE.




Thanks for visiting and may you have a blessed Christmas remembering that Jesus is the reason we can celebrate with such joy.



Merry Christmas and Blessings for a healthy New Year.

Charlene

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Beautiful cookies! A true work of art and heart :)

Nancy said...

19 kinds of cookies! OMGoodness, you are the baking queen! :) I did 5 different kinds of cookies, 2 kinds of fudge, some truffles, and finally a bunch of chocolate covered pretzels yesterday and I was exhausted! :) Your snowflake cookies are beautiful!! Was surprised to read how big they are. Merry Christmas, my friend!
Hugs.

Tammy Hershberger said...

Charlene, those cookies look AWESOME! VERY Martha!

Have a very Merry Christmas!

Anonymous said...

Yes, I'd love to see the recipe! Please share.
Thanks,
Pam

Lauren (mytime) said...

OH your template came out AMAZING! Love it. I wish I didn't stop here though cause all those treats are making me hungry! LOL!!!!

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