Of course, I didn't have a gingerbread man cookie cutter, nor could I buy one, so I had to cut them out using a paper template.
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All things considered, I think they turned out pretty well.
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I took them to the party, where I scored massive bonus points for making CHOCOLATE gingerbread men, and also for making them without the use of a cookie cutter.
And then I tried to decorate them. And let's just say, I'm not giving Martha a run for her money any time soon.
This was my first attempt.
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It wouldn't be so bad ... you know, if I were FIVE.
This is punk man. I made him when I got tired of trying to use the icing.
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Uh oh. I guess this gingerbread man suffered some red eye when I took his picture.
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A Family of Freaks.
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Luckily for me, freakish gingerbread men taste just as good as the non-freakish variety. Unlucky for the poor gingerbread men. They're all gone now.
8 comments:
Kudos to you for having the patience to cut the men out. They look so yummy!
Yes, many kudos for your patience. I'm pretty sure I would have decided to make gingerbread circles and called them ornaments instead.
they look(ed) great!
Cookies without cutters? Insanity!
(I would have fashioned one from a coat hanger)
Those are extremely funny. :)
Good work for making them without a cutter. And for channelling your inner 5-year-old! j/k
LOL. I'm lazy enough I wouldn't have even bothered with icing...
Mouse-
Fashioning a cookie cutter from a coat hanger? Awesome! But I don't think I would have been able to get it into the right shape.
Chile-
There's no way I would have iced them had I not been at a cookie decorating party, because I too am lazy. But since I was there....
Now those are my kind of gingerbread freaks.
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