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a gingerbread house for Gabriele

Once upon a time ... one December evening when the snow came down thick, dense covering everything, including the rose garden where we rested two robins often shivering and there was once a beautiful blond child with his grandmother, looking out the window that turned the world ... They lived in a house on the edge of the woods, the wind in the pines whispering the music of Christmas white crystals were dancing light, illuminating the air already dark ... the scent of orange peel left to dry in front of the fireplace, spread into the room and mingled with the smell of fir resin lit .. . magic of sounds, smells, deep understanding of their intertwined hands. She was the grandmother of the flour, the that could transform the grain dust in a thousand forms from a variety of flavors, like a magician who could materialize the dreams of its small nipotino.Lui, I loved magic tricks, he enjoyed immensely especially touch, to press, work that my grandmother made it appear as if by magic, over the wooden pastry board, with his hands so soft and plump created by interpreting dreams. For both liked to give life to inanimate objects and anonymous as a bag of flour, a little 'butter, honey, sugar, ginger, cinnamon ...... and here's what came out of the dreams that night in December, by the hands of Antonio and Gabriel.

ginger bread

250 grams of honey

100g of butter 250 grams sugar cane

100 grams of almonds and walnuts

550gr flour 1 egg 1 tablespoon cinnamon

a tablespoon of ginger powder mixed with nutmeg and clove

1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa

grated rind of one lemon 1 teaspoon

baking powder dissolved in two teaspoons of water

royal icing to decorate and assemble the parts of the house and trees

1 egg white 250 gr icing sugar vanilla

lemon juice

For the cottage

cardboard to cut out the shapes of the walls of the facade and roof.

Size: 22x10 cm

Roof

Exterior 13x10 cm + 8 cm for the slope of the roof

Sidewall 18x10 cm

To decorate:

toffee

fruit jellies

nuts coconut flour cookies

Heat the honey and add the sugar and butter, mix well and allow to cool. Stir in the chopped almonds and walnuts in the mixer, flour, spices, cocoa, baking powder dissolved in water.

Knead the dough until it is smooth and shiny. Allow to rest for at least 12 hours wrapped in plastic wrap.

working again and roll out the dough with a rolling pin.

the outlines of the house back on the dough rolled and cut along the contours

... roll on the cookie sheet and bake for 10 minutes at 180 degrees (my oven, because it burns all enough 160 °)

Remove the pieces of the house from the oven, cool them and assemble them using a syringe with royal icing cakes or pastry bag

With the remaining dough cut with cutters, ginger bread men or other Christmas symbols that will be used to further decorate the house and its garden. Place the house assembled on a platter, decorate with the glaze by the snow on the roof, around doors, windows, trees on the street and what imagination suggests. To give a hint of color I used gelatin Fruit, candies "fudge" for the piles of wood and to make snow on the ground around the house, the coconut flour.