Ninjabread Men

I've always been a big gingerbread fan and for a long while I've been the one in the family who made gingerbread cookies at Christmas time.  In the last few years, I have built up a large collection of cookie cutters as gifts, the most recent of which were a package of Fred & Friends Ninjabread Men Cookie Cutters that I received as a birthday gift from my sister.

I have a recipe that I normally use for gingerbread cookies but, I decided to try the recipe that comes on the package this time and see how it stands up.

This was a fairly simple to follow and easy recipe, though you do have to use a little creative thinking when reading the recipe because it is written to be humorous with a bit of a ninja spin.

All of the ingredients ready to go.

 

The Ninjabread Men ready to go with a "Practice Dummy" regular gingerbread men

The dough needs to be refrigerated before cutting it out

Rolled out, cut out a bunch of figures and peel away the extra, re-roll it and repeat

The Ninjabread Men ready to hit the oven

The Ninjabread army, ready to disappear.

They were a decent gingerbread cookie, though definitely not the best that I've ever had and definitely not better than my other recipe.  They were a little rough to roll out and I also had to reduce the cooking time from what was on the package.