Why I am Not a Decorator

We were invided to a neighborhood party and were asked to bring a treat. For some reason I thought it would be great to try and be festive for the holidays and decided to make gingerbread cookies. Before I began I had this great image of having perfectly shaped gingerbread boys with red hots for buttons and cute white icing to accentuate the legs and arms of the little boys.



What really occured: good tasting gingerbread cut into some weird looking nativity characters with no icing.

I made gingerbread when I was like 12 and remember liking it, so I thought this would be no problem. Well, I didn't have a gingerbread boy cookie cutter, but I did have a set of nativity cookie cutters from my wedding. They were interesting looking. I showed Justin what I thought was supposed to be the baby Jesus and he said it looked like a space ship and refered to those cookies as such the rest of the day.

The icing- really runny, until I added too much powdered sugar and then it didn't decorate very well either. At this moment I realized why I don't decorate cupcakes, sugar cookies, or really anything. I hate the little details and spending so much time on something that is just going to be eaten! I told Justin I am never making them ever again.... I guess we will see.

I took them to the party anyways and some even got eaten. We will be enjoying them with our hot chocolate this week. Justin informed me he only had to eat 8 cookies a day for them to be gone in a week, anybody want some gingerbread cookies?

Justin and Ruth Blazzard