One of the hardest things in life

Is baking gingerbread men. Anyone who's tried it will understand. First you've got to cream the butter and sugar together, add in the golden syrup and various spices (mainly ginger). Then you have this nice goopy mix, to which you add flour. Now at this point, the recipe says to 'knead' into a dough and wrap in plastic and put in the fridge.

Well, you pretty much can't 'knead' this mixture. its freaking sticky. But I managed and put it in the fridge. Whilst waiting, I started making the icing. But turns out we have about 2 tablespoons of icing sugar left. So my mother kindly went out and bought some more. Eventually the 'dough' had spent enough time in the fridge so I took it out to cut into gingerbread boys and girls. Urgh. The dough is simply not dough. My understanding of dough is what I see on bread commercials. This is like playdough that isn't quite right and just sticks to everything.

Literally after 3 hours, I get all my gingerbread children (and the odd bunny rabbit) in and out of the oven and ready to ice. Funny story, I literally could not find a gingerbread cutter ANYWHERE. The only thing I did find was a bucket of 100 cookie cutters. So I bought it. Anyway, you can see the finish products. After a total of about 4 hours, I had finally accomplished one of the hardest things in life.

G is for Gerhard :)