Step into the gingerbread workshop at Kallaste Farm in Padise and discover how fun – and delicious – it can be to bake together. Roll out the dough, cut out playful shapes and bake them golden brown. Then comes the sweetest part: decorating your cookies with colorful icing, chocolate and sprinkles.
The result? Flour on your hands, an apron dusted with sugar, sweet smiles all around – that’s a true gingerbread master’s day in Estonia! The air is filled with a cozy aroma, laughter and the best company. Just 45 minutes from Tallinn, our gingerbread workshop is a perfect winter activity for families, friends or colleagues.
Stained-Glass Gingerbread Cookies
For the boldest gingerbread masters, we offer the chance to create magical stained-glass cookies. Before baking, crushed candy is sprinkled into cut-out shapes, melting in the oven into a sparkling, colorful glass effect. The result? Beautiful and edible Christmas ornaments – perfect for hanging on the tree or enjoying straight from the tray.
Add a touch of magic to your holiday baking with stained-glass gingerbread cookies. Adventurous bakers can cut out shapes in the dough and fill them with crushed candy. As the cookies bake, the candy melts into a sparkling stained-glass effect – colorful, shiny, and absolutely delicious.
The result? Beautiful and edible Christmas ornaments you can hang on the tree or enjoy as a sweet holiday treat. A festive highlight of our gingerbread workshop at Kallaste Farm in Padise, just 45 minutes from Tallinn.
Why Gingerbread at Kallaste Farm?
Gingerbread is more than just a sweet treat – it carries a story. Do you know how the gingerbread tradition first reached Estonia?
The tale is closely tied to our home region. Through the Hanseatic trade routes and the Padise monastery, exotic spices found their way here centuries ago, inspiring the first gingerbread recipes. What once began as a delicacy in apothecaries and monastery kitchens has since become an inseparable part of Estonian Christmas.
Kallaste Farm is located right next to Padise monastery – the very place where the gingerbread tradition first took root in Estonia. That’s why this is the perfect spot to continue sharing this sweet heritage.
In our gingerbread workshop you’ll roll the dough, cut out shapes, bake them golden brown, and finish by decorating with icing and chocolate. It’s not just baking – it’s a journey back in time, following the footsteps of monks and merchants, ending with a cookie masterpiece made by your own hands.
Come and create your gingerbread memories in the place where the tradition began in Estonia!
Extra idea!
Extra idea! When you come to Kallaste Farm for a gingerbread workshop, you can combine your sweet experience with local history. Just a 15-minute walk away, along the Kloostri River through a beautiful pine forest, stands the magnificent Padise Monastery – one of the most important medieval landmarks in Northern Estonia. If you wish, we can arrange a guided tour that brings the monastery’s stories and legends vividly to life. This way, one day in Padise becomes the perfect combination – sweet gingerbread and powerful history that nourishes both body and soul in any weather.
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