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Gingerbread Boys And Girls

Submitted by: Cindy B. 
These cookies are formed by cookie cutters. By using a toothpick to make a hole in the top of the cookie, you can hang them on the tree. You can also make paint out of egg yolks, and food coloring to make them more colorful--use as much food coloring as needed to create desired hue. My girls and I would spend hours making these cookies each Christmas so we could hang them on the tree. 

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Gingerbread Boys

Submitted by: JBS BOX 
These are the best gingerbread men I've ever eaten. They have a nice light flavor with a hint of orange. 

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Gingerbread Snowflakes

Submitted by: Shelly Rynearson 
Cutting my favorite gingerbread cookie dough into snowflake shapes and decorating them with white icing was ideal for my theme get-together. I save these crunchy treats to enjoy on the way home from our Christmas tree outing. -Shelly Rynearson, Dousman, Wisconsin 

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Gingerbread Cutouts

Submitted by: Virginia Watson 
'Baking gingerbread cookies was a Christmas tradition when our three sons were at home,' says field editor Virginia Watson of Kirksville, Missouri. 'Now, our granddaughter loves to help!' 

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Gingerbread Boy Cookies

Submitted by: Donna Sasser Hinds 
Mom always used the same round-headed cookie cutter to make her boys. They always came out of the oven soft and chewy with plenty of traditional molasses-ginger flavor. --Donna Sasser Hinds, Milwaukie, Oregon 

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Building Gingerbread

Submitted by: JBS BOX 
Every Christmas I design a new pattern and make a gingerbread house for the holidays. The kids love to help decorate. 

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Submitted by: Shannon Sides 
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Gingerbread Cutouts

Submitted by: Joyce Guy 
You can roll out gingerbread dough into rectangular sheets for walls, cut out windows, and bake. Same for the roof. When done you can fit them together with icing 'glue' and paint them with colored icing. First decide what size and draw each piece (front, back, ends and roof on paper such as typing or computer paper and fit them together to see how it will look when completed. You can also cut out shingles and 'glue' them in place after the rest is assembled. Use the paper pattern as a guide for cutting each piece out of the dough before you bake it. Decorate with icing and decorative candies. 

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Gingerbread Men

Submitted by: Joyce Johnson 
Hansel and Gretel would have loved them..... 

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Gingerbread Folk

Submitted by: Bowen 
These are gingerbread people. 
 
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