Pastry shop gingerbread house

Merry Christmas!

I hope you had a nice year in 2019, mine was quite eventful, I didn't have time to bake a lot, or explore new recipes as I was studying graphic design besides working, and doing my driving license. :) 

But for Christmas, I can not resist, I am baking a LOT! :D

I started of course with gingerbread cookies, and my tradition to bake a gingerbread house for Hungary's biggest gingerbread village in Budapest. It is a free exchibition, held in the Bálna shopping mall, and volunteers like me bake the houses. Each year it is getting bigger, many families bake, and besides the adorable houses, famous and creative buildings are built as well, like the Big Ben, our Chain Bridge, Star Wars space ships, or in 2016 I baked the Gru's house. (Check previous years' review posts here) It will be open in January untill the end of February.

So, this year I baked a pastry shop with many happy customers. :) 

The recipe was the same I used in all of my previous gingerbread cookies recipes.

Let's see the steps, and the final photos below!

Gingerbread-house village 2018

Hi Dears, 

Christmas is on the corner, and it means only one thing --> we can eat as many gingerbreads as we can shamelessly, as we will start the diet, anyway on New Year's Day, right? 

Oh yeah. 

But now, I won't just eat them, I participated again, for the third time in a wonderful event here in Budapest, where we bake and share our own gingerbread houses. We place them together in an exhibition hall in the Bálna Shopping Mall, and we build a magical gingerbread-house village again. Every building has its unique style, and we can see fantastic ideas year-by-year. I am very excited to see this year's opening.

The exhibition will be open from 22-Dec until the end of February, except the days of Christmas, and on New Year's Day.

You can check their site here:

https://www.mezeskalacsvaros.hu/

Here in the post I show my gingerbread house, and some sneak-peeks of the "placing-event" of the house.

If you are interested in my previous year's creations click here:

Gru's and the Minion's house 

http://hungarianfoodguide.blogspot.com/2017/01/baking-grus-house-with-minions.html

Pretty snowy gingerbread-house

http://hungarianfoodguide.blogspot.com/2015/11/gingy-house-project.html

Baking Gru's house with Minions

Hey! I wish you a Very Happy New Year! 

I hope you had wonderful Holidays, and if you baked like me the whole time, 

I think we all wish to have a good rest now. :) 

OMG last year it was a really busy season for me, (you could guess, that is why I haven't been posting lately) I changed my workplace, and I have a financial office job again, so baking got back to my hobby again... 

But I still bake a lot, like every weekend, I even took some photos of them, just I missed to upload them, sorry. However, you can follow some of them on our Facebook page. ;) 

I baked a lot for Christmas, too, lots of cookies, islers, linzers, gingerbread and yes... A Gingerbread house. A really special one, I baked Gru's house! :D