22 October 2017
Natalie woke up yesterday determined to make gingerbread men.
This all started because Natalie and Erin had found some photos from a few years ago, on an iPad, of them all decorating gingerbread men with those special icing tools.
Our cupboards are very bare at the moment (due to my reluctance to go to the shopping centre) so Natalie and I made an early trip to the petrol station for butter, used up all the flour, substituted rice malt syrup for golden syrup and hey presto - gingerbread men ... and girls, and grandma, and grandad, and mum and dad - the whole family!
Natalie is very practical and does everything hands on, loves to use all the right tools; but the icing is (always) her favourite part. She had in mind that she wanted to use those special icing tools - that was the main reason for making the gingerbread men in the first place!
The only problem is, they had been got rid of a loooooong time ago. So we substituted plastic bags with the corner cut off and despite her initial reluctance she accepted it and thought they worked just as well. (And of course it helps to balance precariously on the bench top while you are icing your biscuits!)
I think they worked out quite well, given all the substitutions in the recipe - they have certainly all been eaten.
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