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Aunt Sally's Red-Nosed Reindeer




Source of Recipe


the web


List of Ingredients




1 c. sugar
1 c. Crisco
2 eggs
1 c. sour cream
1/2 c. molasses
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cream of tartar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ginger
5 c. flour
Decorations:
Thin round slices cut from Cherry Nibs (noses)
Thin round slices, cut in half, from Black licorice Nibs (eyes)
Aunt Sally's white icing (recipe follows)

Recipe



Cream sugar, Crisco, and eggs until light and fluffy, and sugar
dissolves. Add sour cream and molasses and continue beating until well
incorporated. Sift dry ingredients together, and add to creamed mixture,
beating to combine. Cover and chill several hours, or overnight. Roll
out on lightly floured surface 1/8"-1/4" thick. Cut with floured
gingerbread boy cutter and place on prepared baking sheet. Looking at
each gingerbread man cookie upside down, place a Cherry slice on the
very top of the head (the nose), and two black slices about 1/2" above
the nose, flat-side pointed up toward the feet (the eyes) on each
cookie. Press in slightly. Back 8-10 minutes at 350°. Cool completely on
wire rack before piping the final frosting decorations onto cookies.

Aunt Sally's White Frosting
Ingredients:
1-1/2 c. water
1-1/2 c. sugar
2 envelopes Knox gelatin
3 c. powdered sugar
1-1/2 tsp. baking powder
dash of salt
2 tsp. vanilla

Method: Cook water, sugar, and gelatin together for 10 minutes, stirring
to dissolve. Cool slightly. Beat in powdered sugar, baking powder, and
salt, and finally the vanilla. Beat until the desired consistency to
work with. Working quickly, put frosting into a decorators bag fitted
with a small round tip (I like #5.) Holding each gingerbread man
upside-down, pipe the whites of the eyes above the flat-side of each
black candy. Add an upside-down V above the eyes for ex-pression. Pipe a
C and a back-wards C on the hands, following the outside edge of each
hand (these are the left and right ears, respectively.) Pipe a straight
line down the middle from the foot to the top of each leg. Pipe shorter
lines from this line outward, to look like deer antlers, and Voila!
Reindeer sweets!