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Today is National Gingerbread House Day, and one Hudson Valley sweet shop is making it easy for you to celebrate.

BreadsNBakes in Pound Ridge has put together a gingerbread house-builders kit that has everything you need in a neat package.

The key, according to co-owner, head baker and cookie-home contractor Jason Bowman, is the frosting.

A little extra patience won't hurt, either.

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Talk about the day ahead and how it's going to feel outside. Yeah. So it will feel a lot better than the past couple of days after a cold start early this morning. I mean, at least we got to pair the cold start with a gorgeous sunrise earlier this morning along the Hudson River and really everywhere. But expect a lot of sunshine even into the afternoon. Today, temperatures will rise into the forties and they'll be around the low forties before noon time today, afternoon, middle and upper forties. That's right on par with our normal average high this time of the year, which is around 4647 degrees. So, yes, you still want a jacket or a heavy sweatshirt into the afternoon, but it's not as brutally cold as it felt the past two days. So really nice today, then just partly cloudy skies move in for this evening and overnight temperatures will drop back down into the thirties. Then tomorrow afternoon, highs will reach the upper forties to near 50 again. So no problems with the temperatures tomorrow, but there will be mostly cloudy skies moving in during the morning and during the afternoon we can't rule out a few rounds of some light rain showers around. This will be off and on spotty, light rain. Nothing that's really even going to slow you down too much. But I would suggest you have the umbrella or rain jacket tomorrow afternoon as there will be some showers around and the shower activity out of here by around five or six in the evening hours tomorrow. Then some drier weather will push in later on tomorrow night ahead of an ok, Saturday. So highs today well into the forties, smile worthy weather have the sunglasses. It's a nice bright day, just have a jacket too, a slight chill, but nearly as cold as the past two days, low forties into this evening eventually bottoming out in the thirties for most tonight, a few upper twenties in western orange and up into Dutchess and Ulster counties into early tomorrow morning. So it will be a little bit of a chilly start again tomorrow afternoon, upper forties to near 50 with just a few spotty rain showers during the afternoon, mostly cloudy on Saturday, 5350 with a few showers on Sunday. Most of next week at this point looks ok with more clouds and Sun Monday and Tuesday, temperatures do get a little bit colder.

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NATIONAL GINGERBREAD HOUSE DAY: BreadsNBakes in Pound Ridge helps construct perfect cookie cottage

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well today happens to be National gingerbread house Day creating one. Sometimes can be a little stressful, a little messy. So I turn to a baking expert to show us how it's done. This delicious design is our challenge and we are here at breads and baked in pound ridge with the co owner to show us how to do it. Jason Bowman, thank you so much. You've made it really easy for everybody. It's all in one kit, everybody. So what's inside? It's all in one kit. What we have inside is all the gingerbread, It's all been baked freshly here and we have the candy, we've got our M and M's and our mini chopped chips and marshmallows. And what about the frosting? You can't forget about that. That's very important. So it comes frosting, which is meringue powder and confectionery sugar. And you just dump it right into their pre measured. You gotta love that. A few teaspoons of hot water into a paste and put it back in the bag and you're ready to go right. But one thing that makes this gingerbread house so special is that it's illuminated. Yes, we've added an LED light to the base and just turn it underneath and away you go. All right now to the sometimes stressful part of this process is putting those first two pieces together. So help me out. What should we do? It's great to have a helper. This first bit gets set up. So you're going to put frosting on those two pieces. Frosting on the bottom. And I'm going to put some on the bottom of the side and then we will join them up. How much should we be putting a generous amount. You can always take, wipe it off afterwards. And how long should we leave them on the base before we remove our fingers? Around 10 seconds. Something like that. Just push them, you guys okay? And then just push them, push them together, put them on and slide them together. Push and slide, push, slide. Just hold that 10 seconds, 10 seconds. 10 987 to 1. Yes. So let's see, let's put him in the front. So what's the best way to decorate? Is it just really what inspires you? Just have fun with it. You've got all the candy you can as you go, just add that in together while we're doing that. Tell me a little bit about the holiday offerings that you have here. Yeah, So we're doing panettone. We just started mince pies, your log, something really special as well. You have a Hanukkah, Hanukkah house. We just started those as well. So we'll be offering those right through the holidays. Jason. That was so much fun. Thank you so much for having us at your beautiful shop. And now here is the finished product. I had to bring it back to share with everybody Alex. Got involved in this process to creating his own house. And hey, if you don't feel like you have the skills to build your own gingerbread house. You can also take home these cute little mug huggers from breads and Bacon Pound Bridge, I mean such a fantastic idea, a great way to get involved in the holiday season and and really just so incredibly pretty. I just love it because I think that it's the perfect party conversation and it smells so good. I've always had gingerbread houses as a kid that you just buy it like the supermarket, you know, like it doesn't compare to something that's done locally from these local bakers at breads and cakes and Pound Ridge. It's really fantastic. I mean, notice my chimneys gone. I did you ate that, right? And I know Lindsay our producer at the door, right, like I'm gonna eat, this is video of Alex hard at work during our commercial break, but I gotta say cheers to you Alex because I think you did a very, very good

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