This is happening right now:
But not by me. The son and DIL are having fun making their annual gingerbread house today. It reminded me that I had this brand new Nativity Bake Set tucked away for her.
Several years ago – maybe 5 or 6 – I saw this online and set out to buy one for my daughter. When I got to the ordering page, I marked a quantity of 2 because I was planning for the day that I would give it to “Ted’s wife”. And here she is – and we didn’t even know that she’d like gingerbread.
She wasn’t 100% thrilled when I told her about this today but I pulled out the Baby Jesus card and she caved. I should have mentioned the camels. She’s a fool for camels because she’s half an Arab like the rest of us … them. Us, I guess.
I’m one of them now, I guess.
Looks nice. I get the cookie part, but how do you make them stand up?
Easy. You make a tall blob of icing and put the cookie in front of it. You can also incorporate a large gumdrop from the nonsecular GB house.
“The Baby Jesus” is all-powerful. Not to be used lightly. Also the Arabian-camel connection. Well played.
Re: your last tweet: Are they Camel cigs?
Excellent question, gl. I look forward to the answer.
From the description I get about 15 pieces to the kit. Are they counting the instructions? None of my business, of course, but I’m always interested in packaging that tells how many pieces. As if the number of pieces were an indication of quality.
There’s an icing bag and some decorating tips in there too.
Nothing beats the smell of gingerbread baking.
Well, aside from the smell of blue cheese, olives and gin, of course.
It occurs to even thick-headed me to wish you and your gorgeous Arabian family an actual Nativity in the near future. Blessings on you all.