I made gingerbread cookies yesterday, to take to a holiday party. The royal icing on top is such an amazing thing. It goes from marshmallowy consistency to shiny hard icing in such a short amount of time.
I made the icing from scratch, of course, but I cheated on the cookies. With my wrist repetitive stress injury, I didn’t want to deal with molasses. (I have lingering memories of the arm strain from making lebkuchen as a child.) So I did what any other savvy consumer would do — I bought the Williams-Sonoma mix at the mall last week.
The cookies are yum and no one will ever know my little secret.