kathryn
BBC Good Food Member since 15 November 2008
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07 December 2011
Simple gingerbread house
97 comments
"I make more every year as they are so popular and every year I feel more smug as my designs get better and better!! I use chocolate buttons for roof tiles, jelly beans for christmas lights along the front and back, dolly mixtures for the path and finish with a couple of decorated christmas trees and people made from left over mixture. Don't be put off making one of these, providing your icing is thick enough to glue the bits to the board it is easier then it looks, just hold in place with a glass until set, then add the roof"
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05 March 2011
"I only made the salad as i wanted something to go with paella, beware this makes enough dressing for around 10 portions!! luckily i made the dressing to add to the tomatoes"
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27 February 2011
"make this bread all the time now, so quick and easy, have it proving whilst the tea cooks, i also use 150g wholemeal flour and 350g white flour to keep it nice and light but still has the flavour of brown bread"
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22 December 2010
Simple gingerbread house
97 comments
"I made this for a class christmas gift for my son's class and also for my nephews nursery, really simple to make just make sure your icing nice and firm for assembly, i used 4 chocolate fingers inside the house to help keep the house steady whilst it set, last year i made the other design on this site and used that recipe for this as the gingerbread was soft to eat but held together well for the house, this house is more impressive then the other, much more christmasy looking, by using the 3 for £1 chocolate buttons and dolly mixtures for tesco (bag of white,bag of brown and a bag of dolly mix) made it reasonably priced to make... all in all a loverly gift that was very much appreciated by all :-)"
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29 November 2010
"after reading all the great reviews i made this bread today (got 6 inches of snow, so it felt like the right thing to do) whilst i'm a good baker i have never had great results with bread until now, this is a really nice light loaf, i always use 125g wholemeal flour to 375g white flour so that it's not to heavy and always do the water by feel rather then amount as i find wholemeal flour needs a bit more, i also halved the salt and added 1tsp sugar, will make again prehaps tommorrow as this loaf wont last that long!!"
