- Hi, guys, Desiree here.
And I'm really excited because it's the holiday season,
dun dun dun, and I want to show you how to make these
really cute gingerbread cookies today.
So this is an update on the classic gingerbread man.
You can see these adorable little cookies here
are kinda giving the snowflake a hug.
And they're really easy to make, too.
What I like about these is they kind of look
like a little Christmas decoration.
You almost can't tell they're a cookie.
They also kind of remind me of these Christmas
ornaments that I remember from my childhood.
We had a set of these two gingerbread cookies.
And I remember standing there one day
looking at them on the tree,
made sure Mom wasn't around,
and then I tried to take a bite of one.
Bit down on it; wasn't a real cookie.
Did leave a mark of my teeth on them though.
So every Christmas, I like to look for that ornament
and have a good laugh because it just brings back
that funny memory where I tried to eat a
Christmas ornament.
Now, these things you actually can eat,
so let's get started on the recipe for the
gingerbread cookies.
Okay, so to get started on these gingerbread cookies,
we, of course, need gingerbread.
I have the recipe for this cookie dough down below.
So I'm actually going to lightly cover my surface
with flour here.
Spread that out a little bit.
Go ahead and add a little bit of flour to your
rolling pin also.
Just always helps to not have everything sticking.
And then we're gonna roll it out to 1/8 of an inch thick.
All right, so my gingerbread cookie dough is
rolled out to 1/8 of an inch thick.
And I'm ready to use my gingerbread cutter.
You can find a link to this guy down below.
Oh, and by the way, this dough recipe
makes 40 cookies.
I just like to work with the dough in small batches,
it's easier for me, but just make note of that.
If you only wanna make half that amount,
just cut the recipe in half.
So let's ahead and get cutting.
So after you're done cutting out the ginger people,
go ahead and peel the dough away from
your cookie pieces.
And, of course, save this dough because you can
put it back together and roll it out to make more cookies.
And then I'm gonna take my really big spatula here
and lift these guys up.
Okay, so there's one last finishing touch
before I pop these guys into the oven.
I bet you thought when you saw these that we
like cut off the arms and put them over on
the top of the snowflake here, but not the case.
We're actually going to do it now before we bake them
while our dough is still wet.
So I have one of our snowflake
royal icing decorations.
These are fabulous because they
have such great detail,
and I don't have to do any fancy piping with that.
Just set it down on my cookie,
pick up the little arms,
oh, give that snowflake a hug.
Just put these in the oven at 375 for six to ten minutes.
Now that my cookies are cooled,
I'm ready to give these gingerbread cookies
some faces.
I have some medium consistency white royal icing
in this bag, and it's fitted with a tip number two.
So I'm going to start on the bottom here.
Start with the little feet.
And now we're going to add the icing to the arms.
So now I'm going to pipe the eyes,
which are just little half moons.
And I'm going to add some little eyelashes.
So adorable.
And lastly, I just need the smiley face.
Now to finish these cookies off,
I just have to add some rosy cheeks.
So I have some royal icing here.
Again, it's medium consistency.
And I've tinted it just a light pink and it's again
fitted with a tip number two.
See how easy that was?
Our sweet little gingerbread people
are all finished.
Now you can share these with friends, family,
or eat them yourself.
Of course they do look a little too cute to eat;
however,
mmm, that's good.
So tell me,
have you ever eaten a Christmas ornament or
tried to eat a Christmas ornament?
Leave a comment down below so I won't
feel so bad about the story I shared earlier.
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Happy holidays.
(upbeat music)