Merry Cookie-mas!

Now I must admit, I cannot take the full credit for this wondrous cookie creation.

Last night, I was sous-chef to my sister Hungrier Jemma, who had grand plans to make lots of gingerbread goodies for the family today. This picture here is just one small batch of it!

Now I'm not very patient when it comes to icing, using icing pens/pipes and all of that. Precision is not my strong suit. But Jemma was in her element with the icing pipe, creating these wonderful Santas…

Pretty cool, huh?

I managed to pipe one of the beards, but then resigned to just pipe the outline of the clothes on the santas instead, leaving the beard to the expert skill of my sister. I just don't have the attention span for it!

The level of decoration I tend to do on my cookies is a bit of melted chocolate - which normally slops on in a bit of a haphazard way. (Well, it's the 'homemade' look, see.)

I did actually create a lovely large batch of gingerbread men for my workmates, complete with chocolate Smartie buttons. Though my chocolate facial features were questionable - one of my workmates inspected the one he picked up and asked 'Is he meant to be smiling..?' Yes, some were a bit lopsided or accidentally snarling but the jolly sentiment was there, alright!

Merry Cookie Christmas everyone!