{"id":1529,"date":"2008-10-24T07:01:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T11:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2008-10-23T12:21:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T16:21:54","slug":"gingerbread-skeletons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1529","title":{"rendered":"Gingerbread Skeletons"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gingerbread\"This is one of those facepalm why-didn’t-I<\/em>-think-of-that? projects: Heidi at My Paper Crane<\/a> came up with the brilliant idea of drawing skeletons on gingerbread cookies. They’re adorable.<\/p>\n

It strikes me that you could take this a step further and do gingerbread in a variety of anatomical-textbook cross sections: Do some as skeletons, others with internal organs, etc.<\/p>\n

This is a good excuse to make gingerbread cookies without waiting for Christmas, too (although I fully plan to do a few skeletal reindeer come Christmastime). Here are a couple of recipes to get you started:<\/p>\n

Molasses Gingerbread Cookies<\/a> – These are a little softer and more cakelike than traditional crisp gingerbread.<\/p>\n

Gingerbread Cookies<\/a> – These are the crispy variety. The same page includes a recipe for decorating icing and also a citrus sugar cookie recipe if you don’t like gingerbread (heretic!)<\/p>\n

If you don’t have a piping bag for the icing, put it in a plastic baggie and snip off one corner. Make sure you don’t make the hole too big, since you’ll want a fairly fine line to draw the individual bones.<\/p>\n

Bonus Link: When I was looking around for a gingerbread cookie recipe, I ran across instructions<\/a> for decorating a haunted gingerbread house. So cute!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is one of those facepalm why-didn’t-I-think-of-that? projects: Heidi at My Paper Crane came up with the brilliant idea of drawing skeletons on gingerbread cookies. They’re adorable. It strikes me that you could take this a step further and do gingerbread in a variety of anatomical-textbook cross sections: Do some as skeletons, others with internal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}