That time of the year
I don't know about you but whenever it's that time of the year again that Christmas decoration shows up everywhere, and Christmas trees are being decorated, I start to crave for gingerbread cookies. I already thought about this year's gingerbread house as well. I will probably make it during the weekend together with my daughter as obviously has to help me with the decoration.
I have to warn you about the content in this post, it may be hard for children to see. I started the project with the best intentions, until I remembered how much I suck at piping. I just can't get that stuff right if it's about detailed decorations. Ugh. Instead of showing you a great step by step tutorial on how to decorate gingerbread cookies, it turned out to be a gingerbread cookie graveyard!!!! But I figured I should turn a smile on your face as the weekend is around the corner and it doesn't hurt to make people laugh, does it? I will sacrifice my dignity today and share this failed Christmas spirit project.
Have fun!
Tools needed
Make sure you have these tools on hand when you start the fun!
- baking tray
- piping bag(s)
- baking paper
- cooling rack
- rolling pin
- cookie cutters
Gingerbread dough recipe
Last year I've shared how I made a gingerbread house from scratch. The recipe is included in this post. So in case you need the recipe, please click on the link above. There are many recipes out there for gingerbread, some contain certain ingredients, others have replacements, it's probably also best to decide which one you prefer before you start baking. Taking the step by step pictures while trying to get the dough ready is a pain in my opinion, so I'm very happy that I already shared that last year.
So far so good...
Royal Icing recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- ¼ cup milk
- 10 drops food coloring
Instructions
Sift the powdered sugar in a bowl. Add enough milk to make a smooth mix. Make sure it's not to runny, if you added too much milk, you can adjust the consistency by adding sugar again and vice versa.
Divide this mixture into smaller bowls so that you have a variety of colors available for the decorating part. Now it's time to add the food coloring. You can add more drops needed to create the color you desire.
Still going strong!
Cookie baking instructions
Make sure the cookies are cooled off before you start decorating.
I think the rolling of the dough speaks for itself. Try to make them about 0.5 cm thick. In my opinion the dough sometimes gets a bit dry due to the flour on the worktable, so needs some water from time to time. Any leftover dough can be wrapped in foil and stored in the fridge for a couple of days.
Bake the cookies in the middle of the oven for 10 to 12 minutes at 175 degrees and place them on the cooling rack afterward.
They came out browned nicely, I felt like this was going to be a winner.
Decoration time
Once the cookies are cooled off you can start the decoration fun. This is the best part! I made a few quick designs for the cookies as I had to think about the colors I was going to use. You can do it on the fly if you like, it's just something that I do.
Use a different piping bag for each color if you want the process to go smoothly. I don't like decorating a few cookies and then having to clean the bag first before adding another part of the design. So I decided I'd use more piping bags, this is also very convenient if you made too much icing because if you store the piping bag in the fridge without letting any air into the bag, you can use the icing another day for another baking project. With all the Christmas baking fun coming up, I thought this would be smart to do.
Here we go, are you ready for disaster?
The End Result
I promise these are worth seeing in full glory to maximize the laughter that will follow.
The final score:
- 1 gingerbread cookie without a face as I was too afraid to make it even worse as there was barely any space left to create one.
- 1 gingerbread cookie with a green face that was probably not the smartest idea (the white icing was finished).
- 1 big gingerbread cookie that will probably guarantee a sugar overdose due to the thick layer of icing used for the dress. I'm not 100% sure if I want to show this one to my daughter as I'm afraid her heart will fail when eating this one. :)
- 2 cookies on the right, I can't even put them to words. I guess you are allowed to caption them in a comment below.
I told you it was going to be bad, I did not disappoint, did I?
More Christmas Themed Content:
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Part 1: Felt Gnome
Part 2: Paper Xmas Tree
Part 3: Christmas Style baby tutu
Part 4: Feather & Beads Tree Ornament
Christmas Crafts (2020)
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Part 2: Felt Christmas tree ornament
Part 3: Christmas Card from cardboard and foam
Part 4: Felt Gingerbread man Ornament
Part 5: 3x Cinnamon Tree Christmas Ornament Tutorial
Part 6: Felt Elf Christmas Hat Ornament
Part 7: Sledge From Wooden Sticks
Part 8: Personalized Felt Star Ornament
Part 9: Owl Ornament
Part 10: Personalized Felt Star Ornament 2
Part 11: Santa Napkin Holder
Part 12: Upcycling a failed Craft Project
Part 13: 3x Cinnamon Santa Ornament
Part 14: Paper Mache Christmas Wreath
Part 15: Decorating a Christmas wreath made from scratch
Part 16: Upcycling a can to Santa style
Part 17: Crafting an angel ornament
Part 18: Make your own gift box
Part 19: Baking and decorating our own Gingerbread House
Part 20: Crafting a Christmas tree from crepe paper
Part 21: Felt Christmas tree ornament
Part 22: Christmas Gift Labels
Part 23: Christmas Tree Snow Globe
Part 24: Santa Glove Ornament
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Hahahaha the faceless gingerbread cookie killed me 😂 and the two on the left, they look like overly protected kids ready to play in the snow. 10/10 for the big gingerbread cookie, I don't mind a little sugar hahaha This was lovely to read, thank you for the laughs! ❤️
Hahah, it killed me too. I seriously couldn't stop laughing and decided to eat my dignity and just publish it anyway. But no way I will give them to my 5 year old, she's very sensitive to sugar and chocolates and we will have a horrible attitude for a day if I give this amount. Will just bake her new ones instead I guess.
The big one was ok-ish, yeah. Oh well, need to keep practicing this piping thing.
You're welcome :)
Enjoy the weekend!
These made me laugh indeed and thanks for that😂, even they look a bit groggy I can bet taste is another story! I've tried it myself to decorate them with royal icing, god knows how much sugar I wasted till I found the right thing. Also trick was the mixed egg white, then adding powdered sugar and a drop of lemon juice. The texture is shinier and thicker this way, I'm about to try it again in a few as we approach a bit more to the holidays.
You're very welcome, I was laughing out loud myself as well when I saw the poor cookies become worse and worse. I bet my boyfriend wondered a few times what the heck I was laughing so loud about when he was in a meeting and couldn't check :)
Last year I actually used egg white as I could buy it in a card box from Aldi, but as expected, after the holidays they disappeared from their shelves. Making a note now to check this weekend if they have it again. I hate having to do that myself (eggwhites) I normally only have them when I use the egg yolks for my carbonara sauce. But quite often the egg whites aren't 100% clean from egg yolk.. so I prefer buying it :)
Curious to see your baking!
If you wouldn't have called this failed, I wouldn't even have noticed it. I think you are way too hard on yourself ( here ).
Faceless, green faced or not, they look extremely cute and I am sure they taste(d) amazing :^)
Sending you a big hug from Portugal
Oh you are too kind :) If you saw me struggling with the piping bag, everything covered in icing that apparently was still a bit too runny anyway, you would have laughed!
Big hug to you too! Curious how things are going over there. I've been absent for several weeks until I started this content creation spree so I missed a lot probably..
Can't help but think of what we call a 'doedelzak', in Dutch: a bag pipe.
I guess so. It's hard to keep up with what happens in the world and even with our own family, friends and acquaintances, in these times of information overload.
Um abraço!
P.S. Have you moved to Portugal already?
Not going to move to Portugal, but Spain. But no, unfortunately, next year. But there is defo some progress made and thanks to that I can now at least start enquiring businesses to have an idea of moving costs, how long to plan this upfront (the pandemic is nog making it easy lol) as well as with setting up a holding as we could find the costs but all the paperwork and bureaucratic documents can take time and cost money. I wish we could have made it happen this year, but to be honest, in the end things are unfolding now so everything happens at the exact right moment, in the end :)
How's your house sale doing, you did move didn't you?
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LOL! Oh my, that post sooo did not disappoint, lol lol! This is seriously one of my favorite posts of yours ever, and I would have ate the heck out of those looked like they were microwaved post-frosting cookies, the faceless one tho😆
They are great! Seriously!! I love this!