Making Gingerbread Men Cookies
This is a guide about making gingerbread men cookies. Making gingerbread men or women cookies is a holiday tradition for many families. There are a variety of recipes and decorating ideas available for these fun and delicious treats.
Photo: Making Christmas Cookies
I came home after a long tiring day to find my 3 year old grandson decorating the last of the cookies he and his Pappy had made. It was so funny to see him standing on my old milking stool at the counter decorating the last of his cookie stash.
Gingerbread Decorations and Icing
I would like an easy recipe for gingerbread decorations and the icing.
Pre-measure Dry Ingredients for Baking
Measure out the dry ingredients to make your holiday pies or cookies, placing them in zip lock bags. Be sure to label with what and how many (two pumpkin pies, 4 dozen lemon cookies, etc) this product is for, and store in the fridge or a cool, dry cupboard.
This is a photo of a Christmas Cake I made last year. It is a red cherry velvet cake with cream cheese icing. I made it not long after I had taken my first cake decorating class!
Use Paper Plate Holders for Pie Transportation
Home baked pies can be messy to transport. If you use a 9 inch pie pan, you can separate and stack your pies by using the plastic paper plate holders made for 9 inch plates. Flip them upside-down and clip the tabs to the pie tin.
Watch Out For Nut Allergies When Making Christmas Goodies
When making candies and other desserts or pastries for gift giving, chopped nuts are a nice extra touch. But be sure that your recipient isn't allergic to them. I have a pal who can eat pecans and peanuts but not walnuts, as she's allergic to walnuts.
Combine Gingerbread and Sugar Cookie Recipes
If you somewhat like Gingerbread Cookies, but the taste is a little to sharp with spices, try making your favorite Sugar Cookie recipe and Gingerbread recipe and combine the two recipes.
Baking time short? Find 1 or 2 friends to swap cookies with you. Do a double or triple batch of your fav and she does the same, and you swap. Great when you don't have time to do a lot of variety or go to a big cookie swap party!
Keeping the Counters Clean While Baking
When doing your baking this Christmas season, and always, the mess is so much easier to clean up if you lay out sheets of waxed paper on your counters before you begin. When you are done, most of the mess just picks up with the sheets of waxed paper! Big time saver for me!...
A pizza cutter makes quick work of cutting fudge or toffee. If the candy is sticky, spray it with a little cooking spray first. By Camilla
Always try to beat cheesecake batter on low speed. Especially after you start to add the eggs. Try not to whip air into it. You don't want it to rise. Keeping it low on air volume will make it less likely to crack. By Judi Shank
Toasting Nuts and Oatmeal For Cookies
Toasting nuts or oatmeal before adding them to cookies enhances the flavor. Put them in a shallow pan and toast in the oven at 350 degrees for 10-20 minutes. Stir them every 5 min so they don't burn. By Linda
While one batch of cookies is baking I prepare the next batch on parchment paper or foil. As soon as a batch is removed from a cookie sheet, the next batch, on the paper, is slid onto the sheet and goes right in the oven. Speeds up things a lot!
Remembering Which Ingredients Have Been Added
When baking, in order to remember which ingredients have been put into your bowl do this: Place all items to the left of your bowl. As you use them; move to the right of your bowl. You'll know what you've already placed in the bowl and everything on the right is ready to wipe down and put away. By Marian
To simplify my baking I make a lot of bar cookies. I bought some extra pans at the thrift store, so now I can leave the cookies in the pans until I am ready to cut them and arrange the gift trays. When empty, they nest so they don't take up a lot of room either. By Linda
Homemade Treats the Easy Way - Host a Christmas Cookie Swap!
Do you love to give goodie bags or cookie trays full of homemade treats at Christmas? But do you get tired of all that baking?
When my kids were small, I would bake several batches of cutout type sugar cookies just after Thanksgiving. I used Christmas Theme Cookie cutters and also cut Christmas shapes from cereal box cardboard. I would cut around them with a knife to make unique cookies. I would pack them into freezer containers and freeze them. Then, on the day the kids got out of school for Christmas vacation, I would have the kitchen table set up for them with icings in several colors, chocolate chips, raisins, cinnamon red hots, colored sprinkles and colored sugar, coconut. etc. They spent the afternoon decorating cookies and making gift plates for friends and family. They always looked forward to this day. By Harlean from Arkansas
When rolling out sugar cookies, use powdered sugar instead of flour on your board. It will have a much better flavor, and the cookies will not get hard. By Robin
Pumpkin Instead of Shortening In Baking
Try substituting canned pumpkin for 1/2 the shortening or butter called for in your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe to make a healthier, higher fiber chocolate chip cookie. They really are yummy for fall! By Mary J
Keeping Prepared For Christmas Baking After Thanksgiving
After I roast my Thanksgiving turkey, I place all my Christmas baking supplies and utensitls in the clean roasting pan and keep it out on the counter so I won't have to search and drag everything out as I do my Christmas baking. Makes whipping up a quick batch of something really quick when you don't have to find and then put away everything every time! By Linda
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