Guide Note

The Gingerbread man is a favorite Christmas cookie and can be decorated by imprinting the face and clothes or by adding candies or icing to them.

Fast Facts

1. Made popular by the storybook The Gingerbread Man
2. Appears in Shrek movies
3. Usually shaped in form of humans
4. Guinness World Records: Gingerbread Man weighed 372.13 lbs.

• Storybook Gingerbread Men
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 3 1/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 3/4 cup molasses
• 1/4 cup water

• Gingerbread House
• Gingersnaps
• Gingerbread
• Gingerbread House Kits
• Ginger
• Ginger Ale

Run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me! I'm the Gingerbread Man!

• - Excerpt from an old English Fairy Tale