Gingerbread man
Gingerbread men are cookies made of gingerbread shaped like people.
In America, they are most popular at Christmastime. Ingredients include ginger, molasses, spices, flour, butter, eggs, etc. The dough is rolled out on a flat surface, and the gingerbread man is made with a cookie cutter. The cookies can be frosted and decorated with various trims such as raisins and silver dragees.
These cookies can be made with different decorations such as chocolate chips, jelly beans, chocolate sauce etc. They can also be made in different sizes.
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A gingerbread man, with icing decoration
Freshly baked gingerbread men with a variety of decorations
Gingerbread man (styled after The Gingerbread Man from Shrek) with his wife and dog in front of a gingerbread house
Gingerbread salesman (1902)
