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Gingerbread Harvest Basket

When Matthew and Jenny Mead entertain, they like their guests to have a sense of awe when they walk into a room. Awesome is this woven gingerbread harvest basket dressing up an antique sideboard and filled with autumn’s bounty. This project is edible, or you may save it from year to year. Make this gingerbread […]

A woven basket filled with autumn leaves and flowers is placed on a wooden table alongside candles, a bowl of nuts, and stacked amber glass plates with wooden-handled knives and forks.

Gingerbread basket (<a href="http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2007-11/interact/exclusives/gingerbreadbasket">instructions</a>)

Photo Credit: Francine Zaslow
gingerbread basket
Gingerbread basket (instructions)
Photo Credit: Francine Zaslow
When Matthew and Jenny Mead entertain, they like their guests to have a sense of awe when they walk into a room. Awesome is this woven gingerbread harvest basket dressing up an antique sideboard and filled with autumn’s bounty. This project is edible, or you may save it from year to year. Make this gingerbread harvest basket using our easy-to-follow instructions. Plus: Gingerbread Classes for Children and Adults, Chandler’s Cake and Candy Supplies, 7 Perley St., Concord, NH 603-223-0393 ChandlersCakeandCandy.com

Polly Bannister

Polly Bannister was a Yankee staff editor and a favorite of readers for more than 20 years. She is continually inspired by New England’s beautiful and diverse landscape—from cranberry bogs, sandy beaches, and granite-topped mountains to thriving cities, white clapboard houses on village greens, and red-brick mill towns.

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  1. Fantastic. I think I’d try making smaller ones as place settings with names iced on them and fill them with candy for Christmas.

  2. WOW!!! That is some project. Really pretty though. I like Phil & Sandra’s idea about small ones with names on them. I’d probably have better luck than making a large one like the photo.

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