{"id":60799,"date":"2009-12-03T01:06:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T06:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=134479"},"modified":"2009-12-03T01:06:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T06:06:27","slug":"gingerbread-replica-of-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/60799","title":{"rendered":"Gingerbread Replica of White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is decked out for the Obama family&#8217;s first Washington Christmas. Part of the fun includes a 390-pound replica of the White House, complete with a marzipan presidential dog Bo and the First Lady&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/white-house-garden-replica\/\">kitchen garden<\/a>. White House pastry chef Bill Yosses spent six weeks making the replica from gingerbread covered in white chocolate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-134480\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.blisstree.com\/files\/2009\/12\/sipaphotostwo586146-DC-WHITE-HOUSE.jpg\" alt=\"sipaphotostwo586146-DC-WHITE-HOUSE\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/12\/02\/michelle-obama-previews-white-houses-holiday-look\/#more-80235\">CNN<\/a> reported that this year is the first time the annual gingerbread White House replica has included an interior view of the State Dining Room, including furniture fashioned from dark chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>Other White House Christmas decorations include the official White House Christmas tree in the Blue Room, an 18.5 foot Douglas fir lit with <strong>LED lights<\/strong> and decorated with large gold ribbons. The White House is also decorated with six other trees which will be replanted after the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama Christmas theme is &#8220;Reflect, Rejoice, Renew.&#8221; The First Lady said during the holiday preview on Wednesday that the theme was chosen because Christmas is a time that her family reflects on blessings, rejoices with family and friends, and renews commitments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resources for Making Your Own Gingerbread House<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re dreaming of building your own gingerbread house, visit Wilton for instructions on how to build several festive gingerbread house models, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilton.com\/idea\/Chocolate-Wonderland\">Chocolate Wonderland<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilton.com\/idea\/Fantasy-Land\">Fantasy Land<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilton.com\/idea\/Holiday-Chalet\">Holiday Chalet<\/a> or even the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilton.com\/idea\/High-Voltage-Christmas-1\">High-voltage Christmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more inspiration, visit the Sweetopia blog post, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetopia.net\/2009\/11\/gingerbread-house-ideas\/\">Gingerbread House Ideas<\/a>, or for a small-scale, kid-friendly gingerbread house craft, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/crafts.kaboose.com\/miniature-gingerbread-house.html\">Kaboose<\/a>. Even the experts at BobVila.com have joined in with the fun of building gingerbread houses with their online instructions: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobvila.com\/HowTo_Library\/Building_a_Gingerbread_House-Miscellaneous_Decor-A1534.html\">Building a Gingerbread House<\/a>. Plus, Cory at <a href=\"http:\/\/allrecipes.com\/HowTo\/Gingerbread-Houses\/Detail.aspx\">allrecipes.com<\/a> has a recipe, supplies list and plenty of tips for making your own gingerbread house masterpiece.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Newscom)<\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/gingerbread-replica-of-white-house\/\">Gingerbread Replica of White House<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is decked out for the Obama family&#8217;s first Washington Christmas. Part of the fun includes a 390-pound replica of the White House, complete with a marzipan presidential dog Bo and the First Lady&#8217;s kitchen garden. White House pastry chef Bill Yosses spent six weeks making the replica from gingerbread covered in white [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}