My blogger friend in Finland: Last day of gingerbread Week.

Hello there! 











Today,  The Full Teaspoon Club (aka. Me ;D )  moved out of its headquarters for a day to the other side of the city, all the way to team up wit another great blogger: My Suomi Finland.

My Suomi Finland is a video blog project created out of the mind of  my friend Tani: another mexican like me, who, besides traveling the world, studying an enjoying life with a great spark, also gives advice to new comers to Finland about everything you have to know about this country, always with that great spirit and joy she projects in each one of her posts  Check her blog!:

www.mysuomifinland.blogspot,fi

Today, To end This Gingerbread Week in a great way,  Tani wanted to show her followers how to prepare traditional gingerbread cookies, so I came to picture to join forces, and  we spent a nice morning baking, decorating... and surprise!: we  prepared an instructional video that you will get to see very very soon. The Full Teaspoon Club, in association with My Suomi Finland,  is releasing its first video!  Coming up!

I bring you the photo gallery with the highlights of the day:

Tani

Tani and her sister Andrea

Making royal icing for decorating

Blogger in action

Me teaching some decorating tips

All the action!

                                  our reindeer cookies (we made the horns with
                               melted chocolate)

My Suomi Finland has a gingerbread logo now!

Thank you for the day!

See you on Monday!

The Full Gingerbread Week: Part 2

Hi! The Gingerbread Week continues!

I come this time with the second part of why entire week gingerbread project: 

Gingerbread Christmas Town.

I like to think big, so, when I decided I wanted a gingerbread house, I knew I had to go not for one, but for the entire village: houses, church, trees, rocks. So, baking (see my last Monday recipe for gingerbread dough), gluing cookies together (use caramel recipe of  this good tutorial) decorating, and bit by bit adding another detail here and there, the whole project took about 5 days. 

I even made little people! These ones took only 1 minute baking in the oven, 2 minutes to make darker ones

Recipe for Royal Icing:

300 gr of confectioner´s sugar

1 egg white

1 Tbsp lemon juice

food coloring of your choice. (If you want snow, you don´t need any color) 

Just mix everything in a bowl until bumps disappear. pour it in a piping bag and use it for gluing small details in your gingerbread house: people. trees, snow.  Let it dry completely. 

 

 

This waa so much fun. Next time I want to do it again. It would be great to make it a tradition. My question of the day: Do you have a special tradition for Christmas?...

Friday:  Gingerbread Week  ends:  How to nicely decorate cookies and making your own piping bags out of parchment paper. I have a little surprise for you all!...

See you then!