I bet you didn’t know what you get if you turn a gingerbread man upside down (and no, it’s not a smutty joke.) I didn’t either until I was cruising pinterest one day. Invert a gingerbread man and you get a very convincing reindeer cookie. Allow me to demonstrate.
First, you will need some gingerbread men. Although I made a dozen ginger-free men.
Once your men are baked and cooled, turn them upside down. The head is still the head, it’s just at the bottom of your biscuit, rather than the top. The two arms will be ears, which leaves the torso and legs to become antlers. Making sense yet?
Cover your Reindeer in brown icing. Mine is chocolate-flavoured. I used a knife to ‘drag’ antler spurs from the main body of icing. If you had more time and less chocolate-crazed children screaming at you, you could take your time, pipe nice outlines and then flood the outline as I did in my Union Jack biscuits.
Once your icing is done, cut a white jelly diamond into quarters, and put one quarter onto each ear.
Next, use a red mini-chocolate as a nose.
Finally, using white icing, pipe two eyes. You can also add black dots. And a bit of white icing ‘snow’ to the edges of the antlers.
Or you could just make Gingerbread men.
I’ve just discovered this Kelly, thank you, you are clever – 🙂 Ali x
Happy to help @Ali. I think I just saw it so much across the internet a couple of years ago, I tried it to see if it worked.
Wow, wow what a fab idea 🙂 Will be making these!
I do sometimes wonder how people’s minds work when they come up with these ideas, but i love it!
that is truly just the cutest! thanks so much for sharing on Craft Schooling sunday!
Yummy! I posted a link to this recipe on my blog:
Thanks Jennifer: I’m glad you liked them!
I am going to pin this too. Awesome!
This is so cool. I love your upside down thinking! Cheers.
too cute, I love when people find ways to use cutters other than what they were made for