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A collection of my 2014 work:

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Chocolate gingerbread with snowy landscape

I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas with this video!

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Gingerbread decoration for your Christmas table

Today I would like to share a few ideas about how to decorate your Christmas table with gingerbread.

This first picture is a white centerpiece made of bells and stars.

This napkin holder is made of two Christmas trees and an oval. There is also a rectangle piece inside to help the assembly. Step by step instructions for this project (and many more) are available in my Gingerbread Christmas Wonderland book.

This set of white napkin rings is very easy to make and nicely complements the white decoration.

The first piece of the holy set is a simple centerpiece. Just a big circle cookie with a big, fat candle.

And a napkin holder with the same holy pattern.

Finally some matching place cards.

You can also combine the napkin ring with the place card.

Some simple red and white candle holders.

All natural - chocolate gingerbread and regular gingerbread with white icing.

 Still the natural combination.

Red and white candle holder: powerful and elegant.

And finally the festive white and gold combination.

I hope you enjoyed this collection and I could give you some ideas...

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Gingerbread Christmas Ornament

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Snowflake cookies

I love snowflake cookies. It's easy to make beautiful snowflakes, because symmetrical patterns always look great. And of course snowflakes are all different, just like in nature. This first picture is my 2014 snowflake set. I used gorgeous shiny blue edible pearls to decorate them. I found them in Hungary during my summer visit and could not wait to use them for my winter cookies

This is my very first snowflake set from 2013. Just white icing and the cookies. Also played with different shapes and sizes.

And here is the big snowflake. This is a giant cookie cutter with all the details built in it. It's a gorgeous shape and I used a few pink edible beads with white icing. This cookie is also from last year, you can find step by step instruction to make it in my book, Gingerbread Christmas Wonderland.

Enjoy the beauty of winter!

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Szaloncukor - The Hungarian Christmas Candy

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Christmas tree cookie - variations for one cutter

I recently bought a 5 inch Christmas tree cutter and I decided to play with it a little. 

Let's see the result.

This first set is just simple cookies. I started with green flood icing on all of them, just the decoration is different.

 This is the ideal project of we work with kids: just a few Christmas sprinkles decorate this tree.

 This tree is decorated with white icing, using brush embroidery. We will make this cookie Monday during class at Gallery 916.

 This tree has some curly curves and a few golden pearls make it more festive.

The lines on this tree are painted with green twinkle dust and I added some silver pearls in two different sizes. This looks gorgeous in person, I would definitely need to work on my photo skills to be able to show all the lights and sparkles.

The next set is a few Christmas tree candle holders. I cut a hole in the middle of the cookie after baking, when it was still warm. I also baked some circle cookies to put under the candle.

 This is the back side. The candle sits on the circle cookie. The two pieces are grued together with the icing.

 This candle holder has a little brush embroidery with the same color as the flood icing and a bead border around the candle.

 Just a few lines and a few silver pearls...

 ... and the gold version.

And yes! I run out of the flood icing before icing the last cookie. But I did not mind too much: decorated the bare cookie with green icing and I like the result.

 Here, instead of the circle base, I baked together two trees to make a nice base for my candle and placed the third tree in the middle. 

Will you decorate some Christmas tree cookies this year?

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Gingerbread candle holder

We don't always have a lot of time for decoration, but still want it to be beautiful and unique. These candle holders are truly pretty and they can be decorated really fast. They can make a nice little gift around Christmas.

For each candle holder I baked two snowflakes using my yummy gingerbread recipe.

When the cookies were still warm, I cut out a circle from one of the snowflakes with a round cutter that is large enough to fit a candle inside.

I let the cookies cool completely, then made simple white, piping consistency royal icing.

First I decorated only the tips of the bottom snowflakes (we don't see much of them). Then used royal icing to glue the second snowflake (the one with a hole) on top. Put a tea light candle inside and decorated the top snowflake.

If you look closely, you will see, that the middle is the easiest pattern ever. Just a few straight lines to make the snowflake, a few dots to fill the gaps and an outline. And still, how pretty it is?

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Santa is coming to our house tonight

Yes, I know we have almost three more weeks until Christmas. But in Hungary and a few more European countries Santa arrives December 6th.

When I was a kid, we cleaned our boots and put them to the window sill. By the morning our boots were filled with goodies (chocolate, candies, oranges, nuts) if we were good. Naughty kids got a willow switch. As many of you probably have no idea about what it is, I attach a picture.

I usually got lots of goodies and a willow switch too. Nobody is good all the time, right?

Here is my Santa cookie:

And a closer look:

Now my kids are awaiting Santa. They don't have boots (as it's never that cold in Kentucky) and are window sills are not wide enough for them. But the kids already decided to stay up until they see Santa...

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