Wedding favors, something simple, but elegant
Wedding favors that your guests will want to keep or eat instead of throw in the trash? The goal is the thank you your guests to attend the wedding and give them something unique to remember by.
Unique Gift for birthday
I wanted to create a unique gift for my mom 70th birthday and a new big heart cookie cutter just arrived on time. This is a 9in gingerbread/honey bread/mezeskalacs heart with unique lace design. This unique gift could be customized for any occasion, birthday, anniversary, retirement, engagement, and you name it.
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Traditional Hungarian Mezeskalacs Heart
It was a great pleasure to create these colorful mezeskalacs hearts, which are very unique in East Europe country fairs. There was no country fair in my childhood without a mezeskalacs vendor. They sold huge decorated hearts for keepsake which we cherished for a long time.
I did a little bit of research about the tradition behind the design and the shiny mirror in the middle.
These traditional Mezeskalacs (Hungarian honey bread) are not designed for eating and can last indefinitely with care given to storage. The phrase “Szeretlek” means “I Love You” in Hungarian. These are wonderful gifts for grandparents, grandchildren, or anyone worthy of your love and appreciation.
Gingerbreads flowers
One of my favorite recipe for gingerbread cookies.
I tried the traditional American gingerbread, but that was too spicy for me. In my country Hungary, we also have a similar recipe, made with almost the same ingredients, but instead adding molasses we add honey. I combined these two recipes to get something very delicious.
I have baked and decorated many different kind of gingerbread cookies this yeas. This is one of my favorite, which will be on the donated to the Hungarian Society for their annual raffle drawing.
Valentine’s Day again?
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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Wedding favors ~ white and pink
This is a traditional wedding favor based on pink and white design. Simple and delicious made with sugar cookie dough and royal icing. I just love royal icing, ( you can find my recipe here ) is is so versatile based on the consistency of the icing.
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