Little Women inspired Christmas 🛷 Preparing home for holidays 🎄 Singing Christmas Carols 🎶 Advent🕯️

This coming year, may you be gifted with countless blessings. Wishing you all the happiness in the world! Happy Holidays!🎄Merry Christmas!
We send our love from the LWA Family ❤️
Our gratitude to dearest friends Yulia, Sydney from ‪@5hensandahowardbird‬, and Sofia for their help and support in creation this special episode! 🎶

🎬 In today's video:
00:00 - Preview
00:16 - Sledding with kids 🛷
00:40 - In search of our Christmas Tree🌲
01:06 - Hanging a porch wreath 🚪 Decorating ideas
01:56 - Cranberry garland
02:52 - Handmade Christmas ornaments: Victorian paper Angels and candy Cones 👼
05:41 - Santa’s elf door - our advent idea
05:54 - Baking gingerbread cookies - Gift idea 🐓🦆
09:19 - Amaryllis - popular Christmas plant
09:38 - Vegan gluten free Carrot Cake 🥕
10:54 - Old fashioned simmer pot
12:01 - Little Women party 🕯️🎄 Sing Christmas Carols with us: 🎶
12:37 - Silent night 🎵
13:21 - Angels we have heard on high 🎵
14:24 - Deck the hall🎵
15:54 - Dinner time
16:45 - LW book reading 📖
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Gingerbread Cookies Recipe 🥣
We have been using this recipe for over 10 years!
The dough must be prepared in advance, the day before baking.

Inverted Syrup 🫕
350 g brown sugar
155 ml hot water
2/3 tsp lemon juice 🍋
1/4 tsp baking soda

Dough Ingredients 🥣
250 g unsalted butter 🧈
1+3/4 tbsp brown sugar
3 eggs 🥚
5.5-6 tbsp flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp cloves
2 tsp ginger
a pinch of nutmeg and cardamom

First, you need to prepare inverted syrup:
Dissolve sugar in hot water. Bring to a boil, then add lemon juice 🍋 . Cover tightly and simmer over low heat in a heavy-bottomed saucepan for 45 minutes. After that, cool the syrup and add a soda solution (dilute the soda with a dessert spoon of water). As soon as the foaming is over, the syrup is ready.

Now let's prepare the dough.
Heat the inverted syrup to a boil and add the butter. Beat eggs with sugar and combine with the remaining warm syrup. Mix well to dissolve the sugar. Add soda, and gradually, pouring through a sieve, stir in the flour. Place the dough in the refrigerator for a day.

Remove the dough to take the required amount for rolling, and put the rest back in the refrigerator. On a surface dusted with flour, roll out a piece of dough into a layer of about 5 mm, cut out the gingerbread cookies, transfer to a prepared baking sheet and bake at 375F (190C) for 7-9 minutes (don't overdry cookies)!

Vegan & Gluten Free Carrot Cake Recipe 🥕
• 2 cups Gluten Free Flour (250g)
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• ½ tsp Salt
• 2 tsp Cinnamon
• 1 tsp Nutmeg
• 1 cups Light Brown Sugar (250g)
• 2 ⅓ cups Grated Carrot (255g)
• 2 Flax Eggs (2 Tbsp Ground Flaxseed Meal with 6 Tbsp Water)
• ½ cup Canola Oil (120ml) or Vegetable Oil
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1 cup Walnuts (100g) Chopped, Optional
For the Dairy Free Frosting 🥣 :
Vegan sour cream 340g
1/2 cup of sugar powder

Instructions:
• Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Spray two 7-inch cake pans or two 8-inch cake pans (see notes*) with non-stick spray and line the bottoms with circles of parchment paper.
• Sift the all purpose flour into a mixing bowl and add the baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Mix together.
• Add the light brown sugar and grated carrot to the mixing bowl.
• Prepare your flax eggs by adding 2 tablespoons of ground flaxseed meal to a bowl with 6 tablespoons of hot water. Let it sit for a minute to become gloopy.
• Add the flax eggs, oil, and chopped walnuts to the mixing bowl.
• Mix everything together. If it seems like it won't come together and the mix is too dry then step away from the bowl for a couple of minutes and then come back to it. The carrots will have released more moisture into the batter allowing it to come together into a thick batter.
• Divide the batter evenly between the two prepared cake pans.
• Bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of one of the cakes comes out clean.
• Allow the cakes to cool in the pans for a few minutes before transferring them to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
• While the cakes are cooling, prepare your frosting by mixing ingredients.
Frost the cake and decorate the top with a gingerbread house. 🏠

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