Holiday baking -- let's see it

[mjohnson]

We've seen the turkeys -- now what about the baked goods?

I've never made a gingerbread house. Figured it was something Martha Stewart made.

We were bored today, found a recipe, and gave it a go. The source was Cooks Illustrated so I figured it would work out OK (they always seem to get it right).

My able bodied assistants


Talk about tedious! Even with an application of cote du rhone, I'm moderately shell shocked. Can't imagine how professionals do this.

Appreciating the scale of the undertaking, we opted for a gingerbread (out)house.
Gotta start small.


Working off the recipe I tried a sugar window. It worked out well, plus there was the danger of third degree burns from handling 300F syrup.


Managed to get a crapper in there, even with some TP.


Move over Martha and Duff, I'm a master baker now...

[TerryH]

Very cool! Can I place my order?

[gassy]

Hope it doesn't taste like -----!
Looks good!

[Rick Lee]

I baked a pretty decent pumpkin pie for Turkey and I always whip my own cream for it. No photos though. For my wife's b-day cake I made a white chocolate raspberry cheesecake from scrath with cinammon graham crackers for the crust. That was amazing. But it got better every day it stayed in the fridge and the last day was the best.

[TerryH]

My wife bakes the best tasting chocolate chip cookies. She gets requests all the time once someone has tasted them. Unfortunately, if you eat more than 3 you can hear your arteries clog and your belt stretch.

[DByers]

Bumping this up to page 1 with my home made fudge. I do over 100lbs every year to hand out to my customers in 1lb boxes. The recipe is my wife's grandmothers.

Enjoy

[Tobra]

if I showed my wife a picture of that fudge, I would be eating some tomorrow

had a patient make some lemon bars that were pretty good last week, and some banana bread, this time of year I seem to have a lot of home made stuff around the office, no pics of food though, here is one I am contemplating for the website, looks like it wants cropped a bit though