Chocolate Gingerbread House Petit-Fours Snowy Village [Featured on FrugalGirls!!] {recipe adapted from Martha Stewart, found here.}
I followed the recipe pretty much to the "t". I creamed the butter, then added the brown sugar. Next I added the molasses and eggs, and beat them until creamy.
Add all the dry ingredients together to make a nice layered mix.
It's really been crazy hectic lately. Catching up with blogs, COUPONS, getting everything ready to open a small business, raise my almost-3-year-old tiny baker, clean the house, and catch up with those dredded dishes. Oh, and Christmas, Christmas, Christmas! I do enjoy giving presents, and have tried not to stress about it this year. And I do love to relax with a nice hot Venti White Mocha nonfat no whip from Starbucks. So when the stress does start to get to me, I like to hop in the car and speed on over to my local drive-thru Starbucks and pick up a nice cup of coffee {fancy coffee}. It just makes me feel happy, like "I deserve this". Mmm.
Anything with brown sugar is anything worth eating!
After the mix was made, the cake was baked, and everything had been cooled down, I made the cuts, assembled the houses, and voilà! These are best eaten the same day, and will be a bit dry by the next day, even when stored in an airtight container. I used Snapware.
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