I was hoping since the cats are a year and a half old now they would be a little more relaxed than they were last year when they were kittens and kind of… leave the tree alone. We haven’t decorated it yet but it is gorgeous all on its own, there in the corner of the living room with its white lights glowing in the branches. Pre-lit, and since it’s new the lights actually work! It’s just beautiful. WELL! This year we got a big tree – 7 feet tall. I accidentally strung the green-corded ones up on the white porch trim, and I was NOT restringing both sets of lights! You could see the cord a mile away against that green tree. It looked pretty terrible, restrung with a strand of lights that had a white cord. Slowly but surely I’m breaking out the Christmas decorations - hopefully I’ll be able to really go at it today before I have another work week of never seeing the sun.īut I did put up a really cute table runner and a little treescape thingy in a dome on our dining room table.Īnd we finally replaced the $25 4-foot pre-lit tree I got about 5 years ago whose lights had burned out after the first year! You can print by clicking on the printer icon below.© The Southern Lady Cooks photos and text – All rights reserved.Get in the holiday spirit with some spicy, chewy gingerbread cookies! They keep their shape when cut with cookie cutters and they stay soft and delicious! They’re the ultimate Christmas cookies. Feel free to “share” with your friends by clicking on the Facebook, Pinterest or E-mail buttons at the bottom of each post. Add milk if needed to get right consistency. White frosting for Gingerbread Men: 1 cup powdered sugar 1/4 teaspoon vanilla About 5 teaspoons milk Mix together and put in pastry bag or plastic bag with end cut off to decorate the cookies. Enjoy as they are or you can put icing on them. This recipe makes 12 large men and 12 small ones with my cutters. The large one is 6 inches and the small one is 3 inches. I have a large and small gingerbread man cutter. Let sit for 7 or 8 minutes before removing from cookie sheet. Bake in preheated 375 degree oven for 10 to 12 minutes. Dip cutter in flour, cut out cookies, and place on a greased cookie sheet. The thinner you can get them the better because they swell up while cooking. Remove one dough ball at a time and roll out on floured surface with rolling pin that has been floured. Divide into two equal balls, wrap with saran wrap and put in refrigerator for 4 hours or overnight. Add rest of the ingredients and mix on low until smooth.
3/4 cup butter at room temperature 3/4 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup molasses 2 egg yolks 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 2 1/3 cups all purpose flour 2 teaspoons cinnamon 2 teaspoons ginger 1/4 teaspoon cloves 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon salt Cream butter, sugar and molasses with mixer on low. Remember that old poem about The Gingerbread Man? My grandson, Tater Tot, loves his Nana Juju’s gingerbread man cookies. You can decorate them and they are delicious.
Run, run, as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man! These Gingerbread Man cookies are so fun to make with children.
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