Jolly Gingerbread Guy Cookies

It’s years later and the classic holiday “boy” has turned into a Jolly Gingerbread Guy! Here he’s dressed for a party with bow tie, buttons and spats you pipe on using royal icing.

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Makes: Each cookie serves 1.


instructions

Prepare gingerbread recipe. Roll out and cut cookies using gingerbread boy cutter from set. Bake and cool following recipe directions.

Decorate the following in full-strength royal icing on a waxed paper-covered board. Pipe tip 2 dot eyes and nose and outline mouth in white.

Add tip 2 dot cheeks in pink. Pipe tip 2 zigzag pant legs in white. Outline and pipe in tip 3 bow tie in red; add tip 3 dot knot in red and buttons in green.

*Combine red-red and Christmas red for red shade shown.