I have not been posting and making cookies for a while, almost none in 2016. I just have my ups and downs with everything that I do. But I had to get started and do the Hungarian Christmas Fair this year. This is the season for gingerbread, I cannot miss it, right?
This is a gingerbread Valentine’s Day cookie – red and white, where I tried to incorporate some traditional Hungarian motives. There is just a little bit of icing on it. Only the decoration. The red is applied directly to the surface of the cookie.
My gingerbread recipe is a different from the traditional once. It is a great combination of a Hungarian honey bread recipe and the traditional american gingerbread. It is less spicy but has all the flavor. Those who do not like traditional gingerbread love these.
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I love Christmas baking! This is how my cookie decorating started originally.
I used to invite my friends to bake and decorate gingerbread cookies before Christmas. We gossiped, baked, eat, made the icing, and decorated the cookies for our family. It is a Hungarian tradition to decorate the Christmas tree with edible ornaments, and mostly were gingerbread. Hungarians have a special recipe for this type of gingerbread Christmas ornaments. The secret is that after baking the ornament is very hard, and with a thread we could hang it up to the tree and won’t fall off for a week. After a week it got softer and we could eat them off the tree. 🙂
We never used colored icing but white only. So I try to keep to stick to that, when I decorate gingerbread Christmas ornament.
My recipe is a mix of the Hungarian Honey Cake and the traditional gingerbread.
