I always look at the beautiful houses of my home town Helsinki with my gingerbread house glasses on! After a couple of years' break I decided to make it easy by limiting the build to the facades. These two, just by chance (🤔), have been designed by the same famous architects Grahn, Hedman & Wasastjerna at the turn of the 20th century.
Introducing my gingerbread version from 2014 of one of the most iconic and recognizable Bordeaux wineries, Château Margaux, since I won't be making a gingerbread house this year. The back side of the building has a beautiful pair of curved stairs. The front steps are guarded by sphinxes. One of mine has a rather damaged… Continue reading Gingerbread Margaux
This year's gingerbread house is a toy shop, dedicated of course to my two month old granddaughter 😍 Toys in the window display and some bigger items on the shelf behind the counter. Above the shop is the living room, ready for the Christmas feast. * Tänä jouluna tein piparkakkutalosta lelukaupan kaksi kuukautta vanhan pojantyttäreni… Continue reading Gingerbread toy shop, Piparkakkulelukauppa
This Christmas I picked a dear old building as a model for my gingerbread house. It's an old private town house turned into a museum in a beautiful spot by the lakeside in the city of Tampere. Many, many hours of planning, baking, "plastering", tiling, window fitting, fixing of lights etc. More about the building… Continue reading Gingerbread Pyynikinlinna piparkakkutalo
This is the facade of this year's gingerbreadhouse. Still no roof and lots to do but here's how the project has gone so far... Drawing the patterns. This time I had some original blueprints to work with - great! Cutting and baking the pieces. A lot of different shapes and sizes. Glueing the windows on… Continue reading Gingerbread housebuilding, piparkakkutalon rakentelua
I've had time to finish the gingerbread house. The rose bushes now have stems, a little box wood hedge surrounds the terrace and more barrels await handling outside the back door. I also had to try out if I could make a little directors chair to go under my sun shade. It took some wiggling… Continue reading Gingerbread miniatures, pipari pienoismalleja
Managed to get some better shots of the gingerbread Château Carsin yesterday. The sunshade is glued together from three pieces of gingerbread, one T and two C shapes, with a thin piece of sugarpaste for the shade. There are two really heavy wooden tables on the terrace and a lemon tree in a big flower… Continue reading Carsin revisited
This is a showpiece cake I made for the Wonder Cakes stand at a Wedding fair this weekend - in one of my favourite colours of course! * Tällainen komistus lähti Unelmakakkujen osastolle Love me do -Häätapahtumaan. Kakkupohja on styroxia mutta koristeet kaikki syötävää sokerikuorrutetta. Alimmassa pohjassa on valkoisia hortensian kukkia, keskimmäinen hennon violetti kerros… Continue reading Wedding cake, hääkakku
This year´s gingerbread house is a miniature of a run down house in our neighbourhood. Tips for gingerbread builders at the end of the post...
The theme for the yearly gingerbread competition of our biggest newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, was "a part of Helsinki" - my home town, so I decided to enter this creation with a wish that something would be done to save the house. The newspaper did a story about it and since then we´ve heard that the owners have indeed finally come to an agreement and the house will be repaired. This must have happened well before I made my ‘statement’, so no thanks to me - but good news all the same 🙂
Ilmoittauduin kakunvalmistajaksi nuorten neitien syntymäpäiville testatakseni uusia silikonimuotteja. Tällä kertaa siis kesäinen meriaihe: vaaleansininen vaahtokarkkikuorrutus ja sokerimassasta tehtyjä koristeita. Ensin suunnittelin tekeväni päälle kaksi merenneitoa, mutta sitten kekkasin että pelkät pyrstöthän riittää. * This is a cake I offered to make to try out some silicone molds. It's a birthday cake for nine year old… Continue reading Mermaid cake, merenneitokkakakku
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