The Magic of Gingerbread

An award-winning pastry artist shares her secrets for creating classic gingerbread houses and a bounty of other gingerbread whimsies, including a gingerbread space rocket, robot, and chess set!

• Includes 16 beautiful projects for bakers of all ages and skill levels.
• Provides step-by-step instructions for making the perfect gingerbread, creating and coloring icing, and putting them together for fun edible art pieces to display and enjoy all year long.
• Every recipe is paired with beautiful full-color photos, including progress photos for ease of understanding.
• Pastry and decorating tips and techniques are also provided.
• Hardcover.
• 176 pages.
• 8-1/4 inches wide by 10-1/4 inches high.

A pastry artist based in Ottawa, Canada, author and photographer Catherine Beddall is a two-time winner of the CMHC/Habitat for Humanity's gingerbread house competition in Ottawa, and 2011 winner of the Canadian Gingerbread House Championship. She runs her own business, and she is a pastry arts instructor at Algonquin College.