Confessions of a Fangirl: Best Cookies in Existence... Ever.

So, it's that awful time of year where I get depressed due to snow overload, decorations creating eyesores everywhere, terrible songs getting stuck in my head and the stress of finding a gift for everyone. (Don't call me a Grinch, dammit, this is one of the worst holidays ever, besides, I like mistletoe, that's a point in my favour.) To cheer myself up I like to make fun cookies, since apparently it's the time of the year gingerbread, the most delicious of all cookies, is really "in style". And of course, being me, I can't have them be just normal gingerbread men... no, they have to be characters from whatever currently holds my fancy. Last year's cookies were Star Trek: The Original Series-inspired (You'll be seeing those in a minute). This years theme has yet to be decided, but I do have a few things in mind. (If you've got a cool idea, you should drop me a line.)

Yeah, so they're not very detailed. Sue me. They were for fun.

Now to make awesome cookies like these, all you'll need is a basic gingerbread recipe. If you want mine, it can be found here, but it's in French. But they're really good, and the recipe even includes one for icing, if you need one. Seriously, this man is a kitchen god.

Guess which cookies got eaten first.

Make your cookies as directed, yaddy yaddy yadda. Make icing as direct, etc, etc. You have to leave gingerbread in the firdge for a good couple hours, so I suggest making these when you have a lot of free time or when you have something to do in between. When you take them out and roll them, you can use a basic cut-out like I did for my people out of laziness, or you can hand-sculpt, like I did for my Enterprise. Bake as directed, etc. Let them cool before you apply the icing. (Protip: To cool them faster, you can put them in the fridge, or outside if you live in the freaking arctic circle like I do.)

I was really amused that it was Spock-cookie's hand that got split down the middle whilst baking.

Now, depending on what kind of characters you're making, you're going to need a wide variety of colours. I used primarily red, blue and yellow, but had a sort of gold colour for insignias and rank braids, as well as a dark brownish-black for hair and faces. The Enterprise didn't really need icing. I was going to ice her, but I got lazy and was being kicked out of the kitchen. So she just got a label out the left-over gold.

Laziness at its finest.

After you've got all the colours you need, you just apply them in the places your characters' clothes should be. I recommend having reference pictures nearby, that way you don't have to run to find them if you need to have a quick look.