As part of our holiday baking, we had to make gingerbread cookies. The holidays are not the same without that spicy aroma and their cheery little faces!
I didnt make up a recipe for this, I figured that this sort of thing had been optimized over the millenia of cookie baking. I used this somewhat elaborate recipe found at the Food Network. Its definitely worth the effort! Allow yourself 2 days to make this recipe (below).
When it came to frosting these guys, I wasnt sure what to do. I did a
google image search to see how other people did this and I wasnt really inspired. I ended up simply playing with the tips I had and the frosting shapes they gave me. I did what I could (you can see what I ended up in the pics on this page) but soon felt I had exhausted my own concept of the traditional gingerbread cookie.
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