The Macabre Family Christmas

[lizziegrace]

I have a primitive-style miniature tree I’ve put on the baker’s rack in my kitchen. I’ve hung tiny cookie cutters on it and thought it would be nice to also use cookies as decorations. Pillsbury has gingerbread cookies already cut out. I bought some, baked them (after putting a hole in the top to hang them later) and decorated them. They were left to dry for a couple days before I threaded ribbon through the holes and hung them on the tree.

The next morning I come into the kitchen to find 8 gingerbread bodies all over the floor. The heads, still attached to the ribbon, were hanging where I hung them on the tree. The kitchen had become a war zone and the cats looked at me as if to say “we didn’t do it!” And they didn't considering there's no room for them to jump up on the rack.

Unfortunately, I cleaned up the bodies and forgot about photographing the carnage. So much for my bright ideas. :shrug: Oh, and I took the heads attached to the ribbons and threw them away too. I'm not THAT sick..

[reyd reid reed]

1. Oh noooooo...

I'm so sorry. :(

Hint: Bake the cookies TWICE before you decorate and try and hang them. Once to cook them, second time to turn them into something that'll last.

[some guy]

2. "All I want for Christmas..."

you could have left the heads, and put little labels on them...

"GW Bush"
"Dick Cheney"
"Donny Rumsfeld"
"Condi Rice"
"Paul Wolfowitz"
"Douglas Feith"
"Colin Powell"
"Karl Rove"

or whoever you'd most like to see hanged until their body falls away from the head...

:D

next time, frost them with superglue after baking, and you can use them year after year :P