so i've spent the last 5 hours, yep, 5 hours making about a million gingerbread men. on my way home from lunch with BEX (yummy - scramble with chicken and sun dried tomatoes!) i stopped and picked up all the necessary ingredients only to realize that the only cookie cutters i had were menorahs, driedals and random hebrew letters. for about half a minute i considered making gingerbread menorahs but decided that my coworkers would be really confused and the cookie cutter was way too small anyway so i stopped and picked up my very own gingerbread man.
in counting how many cookies i thought i needed i decided to multiply the recipe by 5. my first mistake. it's just too much. too much for the measuring cups. too much for the mixing bowl. too much for the kitchen table. oy the mess. but the cookies came out really really well, if a bit misshapen, and i was good to go - until i started decorating.
again, i was multiplying the recipe and told myself - you don't need 5X the amount of icing....so i did the recipe by 4 (go big or go home!). so much icing. i had enough icing to ice my way all the way back to the east coast. the cookies look a 3 year old decorated them. finally i just had to give up. no faces. no buttons. just faceless men. i gave up not before finding icing in my ear. and my tummy hurts because as i iced, and the icing was getting EVERYWHERE i HAD to keep licking my fingers - too much raw egg whites.
anyway now the question is...do i give them to our neighbors etc or do i just force ABN to eat them all? they taste yummy but boy do they look crummy.
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