The return of the handsome men!
It felt so weird to be listening to Christmas music and making cookies when the weather outside was 80 degrees and I was wearing shorts! Texas weather is so strange. Tomorrow, it’ll be back in the 30s.
Because I have such a hard time making decisions, you get to see a lot of photos. Hey, but who would complain about seeing too many handsome-men photos???
Raw Gingerbread Men and Ladies
Word of warning: This dough is so good that you might just want to eat it all out of the food processor/Magic Bullet and save yourself the trouble of forming handsome ginger guys.
- 120g dates (packed 3/4c) If unsure what dates to use, see Fudge Baby FAQ.
- 3 tbsp raw almonds
- 1/4 tsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp nutmeg
- 1/16th tsp cloves
- tiny pinch salt
- 1/4 to 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions: Blend, baby, blend. Then form into people. Or Christmas trees, reindeer, angels… Heck, why not go crazy making yourself a little Gingerbread World?
Changing subjects…
Remember Picture Day at school?
It was a big deal, right? Some random photographer got control over how you’d be remembered for years to come. (Thank goodness, at least, for Picture Re-take Day.) Luckily, with Christmas cards, I get to have a little (read: a lot) more control. ‘Course, if we don’t get them ordered and mailed out soon, it might turn into a Valentine’s Day card!
We narrowed it down to these two.
Above, CCK and the Mashed Potato Sister.
Poor dear; I am very sorry for your nickname. But you brought it upon yourself! Plus, I’m getting you back for all those years you called me ‘Has. (Has came from Tejas, which somehow came from Tatie, which came from Katie. My sister is a strange one… but I love her!)
I just made some raw gingerbread men for neighbors the other day! They loved them! I thought they made my tummy feel better because of the ginger!
My dad calls me Big Al because I was the biggest child of the family…ugh….but other than that my name is just Alex (short for Alexandra). My sis on the other hand has a lot of nicknames! Here name is Julianna, but when I was little I couldn’t say Julianna. Thus, I called her Juju. Everyone calls her by these names now: Juj, Juje, Juju Fruit, Joogie, Juju bean, Jujmeister, Grandma Juj, and others that I can’t remember!
I like the first pic, by the way!
I love the gingerbread men. has it been a YEAR ALREADY??!!! since I saw the orig post…wow, time flies!
School pic day, yep, always woke up with bad hair and a blemish…not really, but close to it 🙂
Funny names…oh tons. But I will keep it clean in the comment field 🙂
Mmm, I can practically taste the gingery-ness of those gingerbread men. My favourite nickname is from a little girl I babysit, she calls me NicoNico, ahaha the way she says it is so cute! By the way, you have such a heath glow 🙂 I LOVE IT! Must be all the chocolate 😀
Aww thanks, girl! Hehe chocolate makes the world go round!!!
I like the first picture better, it’s more centered. Both pictures look cute though. The gingerbread men look adorable too. I have to make those again, they were delicious!
Those gingerbread men look goooood! And I never realized how much you and your sister look alike! You are both so gorgeous!
Hehe I never think we look alike, but everyone else does! 🙂
I like the first pic!
I like the 2nd picture.
Some of my friends have called me Eri-Bear. No idea why.
How cute!!!! I like the second picture best. 🙂
Fival as in ‘feyeful’ was my nick name for quite a while! Also fizz and feefs! Random I know! Iike the first pic the best, 😉 have u had Gingerbread men oatmeal this winter? It s definitely up there with apple pie oats in my humble opinion!xx
I keep meaning to make gingerbread oatmeal! It gets away from me… but I so want to do it. Maybe this week!!
Both pictures are great, but I think I like the first one better!