Please excuse the bad picture I posted yesterday… of course you deserve a better one. Here you see the earrings I made yesterday again, hope you like them.

Today I got a recipe for you. i#m totally freaking out about gingerbread. Somehow this is the king of sweet that makes Christmas for me. I need to say it is a very flexible sort of sweet, you can make several kinds of shapes, decorations… So far, I have made some (30) gingerbread men together with my brother.

And the recipe is easy peasy.

Gingerbread Cookies
(makes about 30 gingerbread people)

250 g (9 oz.) sugar beet syrup
50 g (1/4 cup) sugar
100 g (1/4 cup) margarine
350 g (3 cups) flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp gingerbread spices

Mix everything up. knead with your hands on a slightly floured surface. Roll out about 1/2 cm () thick. Cut out cookies and bake for about 15 minutes (or untli you can remove them from the baking sheet easily).
Decorate as you like.

Note: The cookies are quite hard the 1st day. If you wait they will become soft (2nd or 3rd day).

These are the buddies we created:
normal gingerbread man

moustache gingerbread man

nervous gingerbread man

heartbroken gingerbread man

surprised gingerbread man (à la Shrek)

wild gingerbread man

Have a sweet day!