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Spice Hunting: Make Your Own Holiday Spice Blends

During the holiday season there's a lot of edible DIY going on. Cookies are baked, jams are jarred, fruits are boozed up for rumtopf and fruitcake. Some may be gifts, some excuses to treat ourselves during a festive time of year. If you're looking for an easy, rewarding food project but can't stomach the thought of more sugar cookies, you may want to consider mixing up your own spice blends for the holidays.

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Gluten-Free Tuesday: Gingerbread Cookies

No matter how many carols I hear, cards I send, or gifts I wrap, it doesn't feel like the holidays until I make gingerbread cookies. And those gingerbread cookies? They need to meet two requirements.

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Video: How To Make an Easy Gingerbread House

Making a gingerbread house shouldn't be intimidating; just cut out some cookies and stick them together with icing. Admittedly, there are a bunch of steps in between, but that's the idea. These tips from Howcast should help you out. Watch the video after the jump....

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Photo of the Day: Gingerbread Partridge in a Pear Tree

[Photograph: Not Martha] As part of The Ultimate Baker's Dozen Christmas Cookie Exchange, Megan Reardon of Not Martha made this gingerbread partridge in a pear tree made of interlocking gingerbread pieces for the tree and partridge, and royal icing for the details. You can read the recipes and download the patterns at Not Martha. Related How to Make Creepy Meat Hands Photo of the Day: Crawly Spider Cakes How to Bake Pies in Tiny Jars For an Edible Container, Try Bacon Bowls...

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Video: Gingerbread Ed

Two adventurous gingerbread men emulate Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's historical first climb up Mount Everest in this animation promoting New Zealand's Bakery of the Year competition. Alas, it was all a dream...sort of. Watch the video after the jump....

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Environmentally Friendly Gingerbread House

Photo courtesy of Michelle Kaufmann Green housing designer Michelle Kaufmann has created a green gingerbread house. Kaufmann shares her blueprints for the gingerSolaire, the cookie version of her mkSolaire Smart Home, at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. While the chocolate solar panels wouldn't stand against the sun the way real ones should, the organic gingerbread walls look sturdy enough—that is, until the teeth come. If you are feeling up to the challenge to design your own confectionery house, enter Kaufmann's Green Guru contest. Related Modern Gingerbread House A Tiny Dynasty in Gingerbread and Icing Photo of the Day: My First Gingerbread House...

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Blogwatch: Cannelle et Vanille's Pumpkin and Gingerbread Ice Cream Sandwiches

Sometimes it takes an outside perspective to remind you of how great you have it. In this instance, I'm talking about pumpkin. Aran of Cannelle et Vanille didn't grow up on pumpkin pie, but as soon as she moved to the States, she "immediately fell in love and to this day, pumpkin pie is [her] favorite part of the American holidays." An homage to the pie that stole her heart, these Pumpkin and Gingerbread Ice Cream Sandwiches bookend fresh roasted pumpkin ice cream with sugary gingerbread squares. They prove that spin-offs can be as good as the original....

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater in Gingerbread

Talk about a gingerbread house. Here's the genesis of the idea, the floors and walls, the first story, the completed project. [via Elise]...

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Gingerbread Pancakes

Homesick Texan: "I’d never had gingerbread pancakes until I moved to Austin and after one bite, I no longer had a desire for any other flavor. Take all the spicy goodness of a gingerbread cookie and make it rich, cake-like and fluffy, and there you have the joy that is a gingerbread pancake." Lovely writing, and the pancakes really do look delicious!...

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A Tiny Dynasty in Gingerbread and Icing

Foodblogger (and Serious Eats reader) Acme Instant Food details his early (and we mean early -- try 10 years old) penchant for gingerbread-house building on his blog: The houses grew more and more complex over the years. I eventually tired of building houses and branched out to other architectural challenges such as churches and train stations. I once even built a snowy North Pole village out of countless pounds of sugar cubes and hard candies. I'd pride myself on the fact that every house, bridge and building was completely edible with the exception of the heavy board it was built on. I found myself defending my properties from hungry visitors. These visitors were mainly my older brother and his posse...

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