Wednesday 9 January 2013

A Memory of Gingerbread



As a contribution towards the Christmas food, our Elder Son and his Fiancee ( who loves baking) made a Gingerbread House. They enjoyed creating this one evening after work. When they arrived here on Christmas morning, the Gingerbread House had to be snowed-on with icing sugar, before the Gingerbread People and a garden path of Gingerbread Stars could appear.

The saddest part came when the house had to be taken apart at the end of Christmas and the gingerbread shared between three families. No one could bear to watch, so Elder Son had to do the deed on his own. The gingerbread tasted very good!



This year`s Christmas weather was the wettest I can remember. The Winter Jasmine flowers were the only cheerful things to be found in the garden.



Not quite ready for gingerbread, our baby grand daughter was ten weeks old at Christmas and happy to watch, smile and try her best to join in.


14 comments:

angryparsnip said...

awwwwww very charming Gingerbread House. Love the shape and design.
Your grand daughter is lovely ! so sweet.

cheers, parsnip

Mum said...

Both are beautiful.
Love from Mum
xx

The Weaver of Grass said...

Gorgeous photos - love the gingerbread house with all its bits and pieces - how hard it must have been to break it up. I too have jasmine out and it lifts the spirits. But that darling grand-daighter - what a sweetie.

Jane the Booklady said...

What a lovely gingerbread house! Isn't the winter jasmine good this year? mone seems especially full of flowers.

Kath said...

Such a cute gingerbread house, we made one from a kit once, it was a "prefab" LOL

Your grand daughter is adorable, I can't wait to be a granny!

WOL said...

Your little granddaughter is a cutie -- Long may she wave!

Em Parkinson said...

What a sweetie she is! The gingerbread house is absolutely gorgeous. I love the icicles dripping off the roof.

Rowan said...

What a wonderful gingerbread house! The winter jasmine has been fantastic this year, it's such a lovely bright patch of colour on grey winter days.

Cait O'Connor said...

That is/was a gorgeous gingerbread house. An even more beautiful baby girl.

Morning's Minion said...

I've never attempted to make a gingerbread house though I admire them. I'm afraid I would be 'all thumbs'--the same as when I try to make things that involve glue.
What we call 'gingerbread' is a sort of cake made with molasses and spice--served with whipped cream.
I'm thinking that the dough used to make a gingerbread house must be more like a cookie dough[?]

Ragged Robin said...

What a great Gingerbread House :) We've some Winter Jasmine flowering too and the flowers do brighten up the dull Winter days Your little grand daughter is beautiful :)

Crafty Green Poet said...

what a lovely gingerbread house!

Hazel Cottage said...

What a lovely gingerbread house, we were thinking of doing one this year but ran out of time. :) Liz x

Down by the sea said...

Your grand daughter looks so cute and so alert in this picture. In a few years she will be enjoying the lovely gingerbread house.
Sarah x