These 6 inch Christmas Gingerbread Snowmen
are made out of 2 Christmas gingerbread cookie sandwiches: a small one for the head and a larger one for the body. The Christmas Gingerbread Dangle Leg Ornaments are holding a rainbow of white taffy with red green and yellow candies over their heads, pulling it to the right consistency. The Christmas Snowman Gingerbread Ornaments are wearing chocolate stocking hats with white frosting trim and a red and white striped scarf. The red and white striped arms have white frosting cuffs attached to the Christmas gingerbread mittens. The Christmas craft gingerbread man has coal eyes and mouth, pink rosy cheeks, and a pointed red nose. There are 2 round peppermint buttons on the relieved flower patterned Christmas gingerbread body. The Unique Christmas Ornaments legs consist of Christmas gingerbread squares with relieved polka dots, chocolate gingerbread squares with relieved cross-hatch pattern, and white frosting cuffed Christmas gingerbread boots. The Christmas Gingerbread Man Story Ornaments are sprinkled with glitter sugar, which makes them look sweet and tasty, but there is a warning on the back that reminds us that the Christmas decoration gingerbread is not eatable and it is for display only. The Christmas Cookie German Gingerbread Ornaments hang by red ribbon. Select to see a complete listing of our Christmas Decorations Ideas.
Christmas Gingerbread History:
Ginger reached Europe in the 11th century when it was brought back by those who traded with the Middle East. The attractions of ginger were quickly recognized: it could be used medicinally (to treat flatulence, hangovers, and stomach disorders), as a preservative, to flavor food, and the ginger root was soon traded at fairs across the continent. The center of the medieval ginger trade was Nuremburg, which became famous for its Christmas gingerbread cakes and cookies baked by a special guild of Lebkuchler. At Christmastime, Christmas gingerbread was a well-loved feature of Nuremburg’s Christkindlmarket, as it is to this day.
Gingerbread can be made hard or soft, dark or light, heavily spiced or mild. It can be cut into various shapes, the most famous of which are “gingerbread men” (the invention of which some attribute the Queen Elizabeth I of England) and Christmas gingerbread houses, which Germans call Hexenhausle, or “witches’ houses,” after the home of the cannibal confectioner in “Hansel and Gretel.” Christmas gingerbread can also be cut into shapes suitable for ornaments and hung from Christmas trees as Christmas gingerbread man ornaments. Select to see a complete listing of our Decorated Country Holiday Garland.
The Gingerbread House
By Patricia Mongeau
Deep in the forest where all dreams come true
Is a gingerbread house just waiting for you.
Its roof is a mixture of sugar and spice
And the chimney is made of everything nice.
Bright colored bonbons grow around the front door,
And chocolate cookies are laid for the floor.
Its walls made of cookies are cheerful and gay,
And they make this house seem like a nice place to stay.
The house is surrounded by green sugar trees,
And you may eat just as much as you please…
Deep in the forest where all dreams come true
Is a gingerbread house just waiting for you!
