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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: 2008-12-08 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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