The Gingerbread Dead

It's that time of the year -- our annual Pumpkin Carving Party is rapidly approaching! We've managed to finish the first task, the annual making of the Gingerbread Skeletons. This year, I decided to branch out and use some other shapes. So we now have Gingerbread Ghosts and Gingerbread Bones (thanks to a doggie treat cookie cutter I found in the pantry).

These cookies are very involved, I made the dough on Saturday, spent several hours baking them on Sunday and then we decorated all 190 (hundred-frigging-ninety!) of them last night. I thought the recipe made 50 cookies, so I always double it. Maybe I rolled 'em out thinner this time or I have the magic touch, but we got almost twice as many. That's not a problem, though. They keep forever (I've discovered lost gingerbread Christmas cookies the next July and they were still good), but they usually disappear pretty fast. And they'll make great party gifts.