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7. Cottage Mobile: Prepare Gingerbread Dough. Draw and cut out a paper or cardboard pattern of a cottage (ours is 5 1/4inches high from the point of the roof to the bottom 4½-inch-wide floor; walls are 3 inches high; roof extends ½ inch beyond the walls). Each mobile takes 2 cottage cookies as they are sandwiched together. With straw, punch out 3 holes in a triangle about ⅛ inch from point of roof for hanging. Be sure the holes line up on the 2 cookies that will be used together. With tiny metal skewer or round wooden pick, make 7 holes about ¼ inch up from bottom of cottages, being sure cookies align. With the dough trimmings, cut out 1-inch stars, bells, or hearts and 1 ½-inch gingerbread boys and girls. Bake and cool cookies. Prepare and tint Royal Frosting desired colors; spread or pipe onto cookies to decorate. Decorate with red-hot candies, colored sugar, or sprinkles, if desired. When icing is dry, cut out a triangular piece of thin cardboard to fit just the roof. (This will reinforce the cookie for hanging in humid conditions.) Match cardboard to the cookie cottage and punch out the holes for hanging.

With frosting, glue cardboard to underside of one cottage, lining up the holes. Frost the entire cookie and sandwich with an- other cookie, making sure to line up the bottom holes. Tie a ribbon or cord through the 2 lower holes of the roof and bring it out through the top hole; tie into a knot. Tie silver thread onto small cookies, varying their lengths and tie onto cottage.

8. Stand-Up Place Cards: Prepare and cut Gingerbread Dough using old- fashioned 4-inch-high boy or girl cookie cutters. From the dough trimmings, cut out 2 small triangles for each cookie that will be attached to the back of each so that the cookie will stand up. (To make a triangular pattern, draw and cut a rectangle 1 ¼ inches wide and ½ inch shorter than the cookie. Draw and cut a diagonal line dividing rectangle into 2 trian- gles. Discard one triangle. Measure a point 1/4inch up long side from the fight angle. Draw and cut a line from that point to the point at other end of short side.) Bake and cool cookies. Prepare and tint some Royal Frosting, if desired.

With frosting, attach the long sides of 2 triangles at fight angles to the back of each cookie Let frosting dry. Decorate stand-up cookies.

9. Animal Mobile: Prepare and cut Gingerbread Dough using animal-shaped cookie cutters. Punch a hole in dough with a straw to hang cookies. Bake and cool. Prepare and tint Royal Frosting desired colors. With drops of water, thin some frosting slightly and paint a base color onto each cookie and let it dry completely. Thin a small amount of frosting with more water until it will drip or flow from a tiny brush. Drizzle or spatter a contrasting color onto cookies; using a tiny natural sponge or crumpled paper towel; blot up the drizzle to give cookies a spattered look. You may also paint thinned frosting onto the cookies to color the tail or mane.

Country Living/Dec/91 Scanned & fixed by DP and GG

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