Setting: Gloomy day in the living room, pardon my yellowish pictures.
*(been rainy for weeks in SoCal, glad it finally stopped right before Christmas)
Intent: Having a beautiful gingerbread house for my Christmas display.
So what happened?
Let the pictures lead you through my gingerbread house experience 2010.
Got this gingerbread house kit on the day before Christmas Eve -
It comes with some premade house-shaped gingerbread cookies -
So far so good, even though my hands were covered in sticky icing -
Ground work completed -
Wait for 15 minutes...then it's time to decorate the house! -
After battling with gooey icing and uncooperative fingers -
Snowman close-up -
Immediately after taking the picture...
Cindy's gingerbread house 2010 - lasted for 5 minutes,
I blame it to the weather.
Quick post here before I need to leave in a hurry to catch my flight back to Taiwan,
Here it is, my failed blueberry tart -
One important lesson learned from this trial and error result,
Never ever get lazy while baking stuff!
Point 1:
I was too lazy to let the frozen pastry thawed completely before use.
As a result, I got a chuck of baked flour instead of separate crunchy layers.
Point 2:
I didn't use pie weights, ended up with big round bad tasting dough.
Point 3:
I premade the sauce and waited for too long,
Ended up the sauce was too runny.
Point 4:
Too lazy to make the syrup to brush on top of the berries...so it's not shiny and pretty..
Either way,
Please look forward for some good eats and restaurant reviews from Taiwan!
