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After a very long time, I suddenly felt like baking Christmas cookies again this year. The Germans among us will know what "Pfeffernüsse" and "Orangenherzen" are - let just tell you that the process includes cutting or rolling every single piece by hand, then baking them, then again painting every single piece with white or dark chocolate icing, then decorating them... In any case, despite utter exhaustion and several burnt fingers (you should check whether you have oven mittens on your hand before grasping for a falling baking tin), I'm very content, and the whole flat is filled with the wonderful scent of oranges, almonds, cinnamon, vanilla, cardamom and so on.

Next phase will come next weekend, when my little Silvan girl (now a head taller than I am) is coming over and we're gonna bake brown peppernuts, vanilla half-moons, chocolate stars and so on. Yum!

Oh, and I've updated "Tales from Halabor", too! Chapter 2 is posted to all the usual places.

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Date: 2008-12-07 08:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lissas-elves.livejournal.com
Mmmm... I can almost smell those delicious cookies from here.

And next weekend is going to be even better - yum indeed! :-)

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Date: 2008-12-08 07:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Yep, I'm in the baking frenzy right now. If only I didn't have such long working hours... *le sigh*

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Date: 2008-12-08 12:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skyfiery.livejournal.com
Whoa. I want those cookies! *drools*

I was thinking of baking gingerbread people this time for my first time. But the recipes all seem too troublesome to. LOL.

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Date: 2008-12-08 07:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
I dunno, most of them aren't that terribly difficult. Perhaps you don't get your hands on the simpler ones? My only problem with gingerbread figures is that the dough is rather... sticky. ;)

Oh, and, of course, decorating them takes forever. But it's great fun if you have someone working with you.

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Date: 2008-12-08 05:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cirdan-havens.livejournal.com
Sounds tasty. :)

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Date: 2008-12-08 07:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
They are. And they look pretty, too. And last till Christmas, so you can make them in advance, which is very practical.

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Date: 2008-12-08 07:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mistry89.livejournal.com
Can almost smell them from here!
I confess, I don't bake the ones that much more than eating after they come out of the oven (no talent in the decorating department and far too impatient to wait .... sometimes will ice them with a smear of something lemony or white-chocolatey, but that's it) *g*

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Date: 2008-12-08 08:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Oh, I need to be in a specific mindset to bake them, too. I haven't made any for years. But somehow this year I felt the inspiration... perhaps because Ági will come next weekend to work with me. It's always much more fun when you have a willing slave to do the boring part. ;)

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Date: 2008-12-08 08:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mistry89.livejournal.com
What is the boring part? I know it isn't eating the results :)

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Date: 2008-12-08 11:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
The rolling out the dought, the forming of little half-moons... that sort of thing. I prefer the decorating part. ;)

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Date: 2008-12-08 06:16 pm (UTC)
artemis10002000: Don't drink water... fish have sex in it (Default)
From: [personal profile] artemis10002000
Verbrannte Finger, autsch! Wir haben auch fleißig gebacken. Es ist sehr viel Arbeit, aber am Besten schmecken die Plätzchen doch immer noch, wenn man sie selbst gebacken hat, nicht?

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Date: 2008-12-08 11:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Ohne Zweifel. :)

Was habt ihr denn gebacken? Ich habe heute Diamantentaler (mit kandierten Kirschen und Hagelzucker) und Zimtplätzchen (mit Mandelblättchen) produziert. Man findet die tollsten Rezepte in diesen alten "Kochen & Küche" Hefte.

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Date: 2008-12-11 11:12 am (UTC)
artemis10002000: Don't drink water... fish have sex in it (Default)
From: [personal profile] artemis10002000
Diamanttaler, das hört sich ja richtig lecker an. Muß mal nach dem Rezept googeln. Ich liebe kandierte Kirschen.

Wir haben Zimtsterne gemacht (allerdings nur als Zimthäufchen, weil das Ausstechen so ne Schweinerei ist), Kokosmakronen, normale Ausstechplätzchen und Marzipanplätzchen.

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Date: 2008-12-11 08:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Ich kann dir das Rezept schenken. Oder hier aufladen, wenn du möchtest.

Zimtsterne sind eine furchtbare Schererei... ich habe sie einfach gekauft. Kokos und Marzipan mag ich nicht, aber ich habe vor noch braune Pfeffernüsse und Schokosterne zu backen.

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Date: 2008-12-12 10:53 am (UTC)
artemis10002000: Don't drink water... fish have sex in it (Default)
From: [personal profile] artemis10002000
Oh ja, das wär toll!

Ja, Zimtsterne sind viel Arbeit. Deshalb machen wir einfach einen Teelöffel Teig auf eine Oblate, obendrauf ein bißchen Eischnee und fertig. Schmeckt genausogut wie Sterne. Wir haben letztens eine neue Rührmaschine gekauft - so eine wie in den Kochsendungen, wo die Maschine in einem Gestell mit integrierter Schüssel steht, so, daß man sie nur noch anschalten muß und sie knetet alleine. Das ist echt praktisch. Man gibt das Eiweiß rein, schaltet an, trinkt gemütlich ne Tasse Kaffee und zehn Minuten später hat man festen Eischnee.

Diese beiden hören sich auch sehr lecker an! Ich hatte vergessen, Schwarz-Weiß-Gebäck hatten wir auch noch gemacht. Das ist ja auch so eine klebrige Angelegenheit.

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Date: 2008-12-17 08:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Oh, so was habe ich noch nie gemacht! Die Rezepte hören sich immer so complicated an.

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Date: 2008-12-18 10:42 am (UTC)
artemis10002000: Don't drink water... fish have sex in it (Default)
From: [personal profile] artemis10002000
Schwarz-Weiß ist schon was kompliziert, aber dafür schmecken die Plätzchen auch herrlich lecker.

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Date: 2008-12-18 08:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Ich habe mich noch nie darangewagt. Komme mal rüber eines Jahres, ud wir backen ein wenig zusammen. *g*

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Date: 2008-12-19 11:36 am (UTC)
artemis10002000: Don't drink water... fish have sex in it (Default)
From: [personal profile] artemis10002000
Au ja, das wär toll!

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Date: 2008-12-17 02:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lhun-dweller.livejournal.com
Mmmmm... I can almost smell them over here. Have a delightful time with your Silvan Elfling!

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Date: 2008-12-17 08:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Oh, I had. Believe me, I had. Even though I could barely move on the next day. *g*
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