Gingerbread Christmas Ornaments

I love Christmas baking! This is how my cookie decorating started originally.

I used to invite my friends to bake and decorate gingerbread cookies before Christmas. We gossiped, baked, eat, made the icing, and decorated the cookies for our family. It is a Hungarian tradition to decorate the Christmas tree with edible ornaments, and mostly were gingerbread. Hungarians have a special recipe for this type of gingerbread Christmas ornaments. The secret is that after baking the ornament is very hard, and with a thread we could hang it up to the tree and won’t fall off for a week. After a week it got softer and we could eat them off the tree. 🙂
We never used colored icing but white only. So I try to keep to stick to that, when I decorate gingerbread Christmas ornament.

My recipe is a mix of the Hungarian Honey Cake and the traditional gingerbread.

Set of ornaments – 3 big ones, and 9 small

Gingerbread ornaments