Gingerbread decor

​​“Run, run, run as fast as you can,
you can’t catch me, I’m the gingerbread man!”
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Gingerbread Decorating Day is here to help all kids, from ages 1 to 92, get as much fun out of the season as possible! You ​could ​purchase gingerbread ​shapes of Santa or a reindeer and decorate​ or simply make them from scratch​. The choice is yours!​ So, how does one go about decorating gingerbread? Scroll below or you might first like to read a bit about how it all came about.​
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History of Gingerbread Decorating Day
​​Gingerbread is though​t​ to have been brought to Europe by an Armenian monk named Gregory of Nicopolis in the 10th century who had brought the necessary spices back from the Middle East, and then taught the art of gingerbread making, what with the spices and the molasses, to French Christians until his death. Gingerbread then made its way around Europe–in the 13th century, it made its way to Sweden, where it was baked by nuns to help soothe indigestion. There, it slowly became popular to paint the cookies and use them as window decorations as well.

The 13th century also saw gingerbread make its debut in the city of Toruń in Poland, where the honey supplied by the local villages made the cookies especially delicious. To this day Pierniki Toruńskie, as they are known in Poland, is an icon of Poland’s national cuisine.

From the 17th century onwards, gingerbread was sold in monasteries and pharmacies in England, where it was thought to have medicinal properties, and gingerbread became the symbol of the town of Market Drayton, which was particularly known for it.In the play, “Love’s Labour’s Lost”, Shakespeare himself wrote, “And I had but one penny in the world,thou should’st have it to buy gingerbread.”

In 1875, the gingerbread man was first introduced to holiday traditions through a fairytale published in St. Nicholas magazine, where he was depicted as a holiday treat that was eventually eaten by a hungry fox.

​​How ​to decorate your Gingerbread
Needless to say, the best ​option is to make your very own gingerbread cookies and then proceed to decorate them. This allows lots of room for creativity, and can be fun for the whole family! It can be the most fun when each member of the family makes, bakes and decorates his or her own gingerbread man.

Gingerbread can be decorated with many different things, from a simple icing made from just water and icing sugar to more creative icings, like lemon or buttercream icing. Gingerbread men can also be made into cookie sandwiches, with delectable fillings made with vanilla or lemon cream, orange buttercream, or even ice cream!

Visit your nearest Magsons outlet for Gingerbread and loads of other Christmas goodies.