Wow! Not Your Grandma's Gingerbread Men!!!
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Hot and Spicy Gingerbread Men!
Create gingerbread men to make a statement, dress up your special events, or even to send a special person a message!
Don't be afraid to add 1/4 tsp paprika, crushed red peppers or extra ginger-
The spicier, the better!
Gingerbread Haka!
Traditional German Gingerbread Cookie Recipe
For Cookies or Houses
* 1/2 cup molasses
* 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
* 1 egg
* 1 tablespoon lemon juice
* 1 teaspoon lemon zest
* 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
* 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 1 teaspoon ground cloves
* 1 teaspoon ground allspice
* 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
* 1/3 cup diced candied citron
* 1/3 cup chopped hazelnuts
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* 1 cup white sugar
* 1/2 cup water
* 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
DIRECTIONS
1. In a medium saucepan, stir together the honey and molasses. Bring the mixture to a boil, remove from heat and stir in the brown sugar, egg, lemon juice and lemon zest. In a large bowl, stir together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, allspice and nutmeg. Add the molasses mixture to the dry ingredients and mix well. Stir in the citron and hazelnuts. Cover dough and chill overnight.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets. Using a small amount of dough at a time, roll out on a lightly floured surface to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut into small rectangles and place them 1 inch apart onto the prepared cookie sheet.
3. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven, until no imprint remains when touched lightly. Brush the icing over the cookies while they are still hot and quickly remove them to wire cooling racks. Store in airtight container with a cup of orange or apple for a few days to mellow.
4. To make the icing: Combine the sugar and water in a small saucepan. Heat to between 234 and 240 degrees F (112 to 116 degrees C), or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms a soft ball that flattens when removed from the water and placed on a flat surface. Remove from heat and stir in the confectioners' sugar. If icing becomes sugary while brushing cookies, re-heat slightly- adding a little water until crystals dissolve.
Christmas Gingerbread: Pancakes or Waffles
Good anytime, the new gingerbread!

- Serves: 5, 2 pancakes or waffles each
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 15
Gingerbread is a peculiarly important 'comfort food' and not only that, ginger is THE most effective remedy for stomach problems of all types.
You can freeze the waffles or pancakes that you don't use first time around and later, for breakfast or a snack, just pop them in the toaster.
This is adapted from a Martha Stewart recipe, by Annie at Annie's Eats and by me!.
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- ¾ tsp. salt
- 1½ tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1½ tsp. ground ginger
- ¼ tsp. grated nutmeg
- ¼ tsp. ground cloves
- 4 large eggs
- 6 tbsp. unsalted butter
- melted and cooled
- 1 cup milk
- ½ cup sour cream
- 3 tbsp. unsulfured molasses
Instructions
Directions:
In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and spices. Whisk to blend. In a medium bowl, combine the eggs, butter, milk, sour cream and molasses and whisk to blend well. Add the wet ingredients to the bowl with the dry ingredients and whisk to combine until all the dry ingredients are incorporated.
Preheat a waffle iron. Fill waffle wells and cook according to the manufacturer's instructions. Cook until crisp and golden. Serve immediately.
Terra Cotta Soldiers
Gingerbread Pie Crust Pastry
Use it any way you'd use a regular pie crust
- Serves: 1 piecrust
- Prep Time: 30 mins
It surprised me to discover how wonderful a ginger pie crust can be with unexpected dishes, for example, a ginger-chicken pot pie. For fantastic dishes like that you need a great ginger pie crust recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 1/c all purpose flour
- 2 TBSP fresh ginger root
- peeled and minced or grated
- 1/4 tsp allspice (ground)
- 2 TBSP sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/c unsalted butter
- cold
- 2 TBSP ice cold water. More available as needed.
Instructions
Stir together flour, sugar, ginger root, allspice and salt. With a pastry blender, cut in the cold butter until the dough resembles coarse meal. In another bowl, small, combine 2 TBSP water with the egg yolk. Add to the flour mixture. Toss everything with a fork until moist clumps form. If needed, add more ice cold water in 1 tsp amounts, only if the dough is too dry.
Form the dough into a ball and flatten into a disk. Do not over-handle the dough! Wrap it in plastic wrap and chill, for at least 20 minutes or as long as 24 hours.
However long you chill the dough, unwrap it and let it sit at room temp for about 10 minutes before you roll it out into a pie crust or tart shells.
If you want a top crust for your pie, make two batches.
Gingerbread TerraCotta Army!
- Who Needs the Terracota Army When You Got The Gingerbread Army
- Who Needs the Terracota Army When You Got The Gingerbread Army?
- Gingerbread men take on the Terracotta Army
- An army of gingerbread soldiers has been created as an edible rival to China's famous Terracotta Army.
Gingerbread men and the real Terracotta Warriors
Gingerbread interpretation of the real thing
The hundreds of edible soldiers claim to be a painstaking miniature re-creation of 2000-year-old treasures.
You Can't Touch This Gingerbread!
Gingerbread Man Costume!
Gingerbread Man Adult Costume
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Stick out in a Crowd at any gathering!
If you smell like Gingerbread, you smell like GOOD FOOD!
No wonder he's so popular among the girls.
Other Gingerbread Armies!
- GingerNazis
- Artist Keith McGuckin's latest controversial work is entitled "The Secret Lives of Gingerbread Men". It depicts the holiday cookies dressed up in full Nazi uniform, complete with swastikas and mustaches--standing around a fire pit.
gingerbread Man toys
The Residents Gingerbread Man
Gingerbread Steusel
Topping for your baked goods!
- Serves: 2 1/2 cups
- Prep Time: 20 mins
This fantastic streusel topping is fantastic on apple pies, coffee cakes, pumpkin pies and tarts, and even to put on a salad.
Ingredients
- 1/3 c hopped crystallized ginger
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 c all purpose flour
- 1/3 c brown sugar
- 3/4 c chopped pecans
- 1/2 c cold butter
- unsalted
Instructions
First, using a pastry blender cut the cold butter into the flour, brown sugar and ground ginger. When it resembles crumbs, stir in the pecans and crystallized ginger. Serve as you wish, as a pie/tart top, in a salad, sprinkled on squash or sweet potatoes, in a salad.
Gingerbread Man Beanie Baby
Specialty Gingerbread Syrup
Entner-Stuart Syrups Gingerbread Syrup, 750 ml
Amazon Price: $8.99 (as of 02/16/2012)![]()
Make your own Gingerbread cappuccino with this fabulous syrup!
Create a Fantastic Gingerbread House
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rauspitz
Dec 7, 2011 @ 11:01 pm | delete
- I will be buying some gingerbread men when I go to my fav bakery on Sunday. Guaranteed.
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Tipi
Aug 17, 2011 @ 3:23 pm | delete
- Wonderful and not your grandmother's gingerbread men for sure, you had me laughing in delight at first sight. Gingerbread waffles are new to me an sound delicious, my gooness, guess I'll have to wait for Christmas!
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janjanpost
Jan 20, 2011 @ 1:18 pm | delete
- I will definitely be baking a LOT this holiday! Since I started this blog I have been looking forward to it..
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- I like Gingerbread Men all year round, too.
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