How do you make a ginger bread man?

Answer 1

Christmas wouldn't be the same without these ginger bread men. They are fragrant with ground ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves; the amount of which can be adjusted to suit your own individual tastes.

If you like your Gingerbread Men on the soft side, bake them a little less than the recipe states as the longer they bake the harder they will become. There are a few ways to decorate your Gingerbread Men; one is to press raisins into the dough before baking, or you can frost the baked and cooled cookies with confectioners' frosting.

You can also use Gingerbread Men as decorations for your Christmas tree or as gift tags. To do this, pierce a hole in the top of each unbaked cookie using a straw or end of a wooden skewer. Bake the cookies and then thread a pretty ribbon through the hole and hang on your tree.

Answer 2

The method depends on whether you want cookie ornaments that can be eaten, or whether you want more permanent, non-edible decorations that might last several years. For edible gingerbread cookie ornaments, use a standard gingerbread cookie recipe, making certain to make a hole in each cookie before baking. After baking and cooling, cover each cookie with hard decorative frosting, such as the Royal Icing included in the recipe linked below.

> For non-edible, more permanent gingerbread ornaments, use a craft dough recipe including white glue, such as the one linked below.