2024 the best gingerbread recipe review
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An award-winning pastry artist shares her secrets for creating classic gingerbread houses and a bounty of other gingerbread whimsies, including a gingerbread space rocket, robot, and chess set!
Includes 16 beautiful projects for bakers of all ages and skill levels.Provides step-by-step instructions for making the perfect gingerbread, creating and coloring icing, and putting them together for fun edible art pieces to display and enjoy all year long.Every recipe is paired with beautiful full-color photos, including progress photos for ease of understanding.Pastry and decorating tips and techniques are also provided.Hardcover.176 pages.8-1/4 inches wide by 10-1/4 inches high.
A pastry artist based in Ottawa, Canada, author and photographer Catherine Beddall is a two-time winner of the CMHC/Habitat for Humanity's gingerbread house competition in Ottawa, and 2011 winner of the Canadian Gingerbread House Championship. She runs her own business, and she is a pastry arts instructor at Algonquin College.
Publisher : Peter Pauper Press (September 28, 2016)
Language : English
Hardcover : 176 pages
ISBN-10 : 1441319808
ISBN-13 : 978-1441319807
Item Weight : 2.3 pounds
Dimensions : 8 x 1 x 11 inches
Reviewer: GypsyWriter
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great projects for all skill levels
Review: My 84 year old father and I started making gingerbread projects from this book a few years ago and we have thoroughly enjoyed it! We had no experience when we began but the instructions are easy to follow. It's a beautiful book with plenty of pictures to illustrate every step of the process. We've found the basic gingerbread recipe easy to work with except in humid weather, when it gets too soft for hardy construction. We've learned so much by using the templates and following the tips in this book. So glad I bought this book for my dad a few years ago! The time we've spent together working on the projects has been invaluable.
Reviewer: sheryl kandels
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Magic of Gingerbread
Review: What a beautiful book! One of the best gingerbread books I have seen!! Love all the details and instructions. Also including all sources that were used. Thank you for sharing!!
Reviewer: J. Dunnett
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Gingerbread houses and more
Review: Some different projects to try. Beautifully illustrated with some unique projects that I haven't found elsewhere. Can't wait to show off my new gingerbread skills at our family Thanksgiving Dinner and Christmas.
Reviewer: JanetteW
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great addition to my gingerbread book collection
Review: There is a great gingerbread dough recipe in this book that's a keeper. She also has some really beautiful creations and lovely photography. I really like this book. My only complaint is that I wish the typeset was in black and not gray. It's a bit hard, though not impossible, to read for my aging eyes. If you take gingerbread baking seriously, this book is a great addition to your collection.
Reviewer: Elizabeth Smith
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: So pleased!
Review: I've been waiting for this for a while now, and I'm so happy with it it doesn't let me down after so much anticipation! I've got other gingerbread books, but this one is by far the best. It has very detailed instructions for every step, complete with beautiful photos. And the workmanship is excellent on everything. So many times I see books (or websites) with interesting ideas but sloppy work on the details. Not so with this. Every project is beautiful, and she makes them all seem doable, even when they look intimidating. And the whole thing is beautiful enough to be a lovely coffee table book as well! I highly recommend this book!
Reviewer: J. Jackson
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Proceed with caution
Review: I bought this book for a Bake & Take we host for our kids/nieces/nephew every year. The projects are awesome, with lots of in-progress and finished-product photos. I really liked the color diagrams for placing decorations. (We made the Classic Candy House.)The Bake & Take is the most relaxed baking I do for the holidays â you have to learn to âlet it go, let it flowâ when there are kids involved! A few days before The Day, I made the Candy House with my kids, as a test run. The dough was by turns crumbly and greasy. I followed her recipe exactly, weighing in grams like I always do. Once cut, I had trouble getting the parchment on the baking sheets without wrinkling the dough; it cracked where it wrinkled but I âgluedâ it with a bit of water. Then it puffed in the oven and spread. A lot. There are no hard-and-fast instructions for baking times (or even a test for doneness), which I really needed, not being a professional gingerbread artist. I had to recut ALL the pieces but at least the scraps were tasty. I made a second batch with the same result.The decorating went much smoother, although some structural experimentation a bit of finger/hand acrobatics came in handy.A nice book but I have to take two stars for the crumbly, greasy, puffy, spreading dough which the author insists she uses all the time with none of those issues.
Reviewer: Matthew
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Love
Review: This book has some amazing , beautiful recipes/ideas!
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Love this book!
Review: A beautiful book in all aspects - design, layout, content, photographs - truly a wondrous and magical production. I agree with earlier reviews - love just browsing through it.
Reviewer: Rebecca Carriere
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Absolute beautiful book. Buy it, you won't be disappointed! Beautiful photos with step by step instructions. You can really tell it's written by a professional chef.
Reviewer: Mrs. J. E. Haines
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Fabulous book, wonderful illustrations.
Reviewer: Paola
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: "IL" libro per eccellenza delle Gingerbread house. Scritto in inglese è veramente scritto in modo impeccabile e molto chiaro con tuttii passaggi necessari e parecchie fotografie. Unico neo è che la stampa delle parole è in grigio chiaro e non si legge benissimo. Consegna perfetta di Amazon!
Reviewer: BB
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Good and beautiful book! I very appreciate it!
Reviewer: j.damsma
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Great book. Timely delivery
Customers say
Customers find the book's creations beautiful and colorful. They describe the content as wonderful, awesome, and a great addition to their collection. Readers appreciate the detailed instructions and find them doable. However, some customers report that the color contrast is poor and the print is small and light in color.
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