Cooking with children and making crafts, two in one (giant cookie)

Not only is it a recipe to eat, but it is also a great canvas to decorate. The little hands of your children can become true artists with these Gingerbread men's cookies.

Cookies is a very easy recipe for cook with children and if we also let them paint and decorate in their own way, the fun can be maximum.

In Sweetapolita you will find the recipe to make this gingerbread man, although you can use any other cookie recipe you have. The only thing to keep in mind is the baking time because if you want the cookie to be giant, you will have to apply the following trick: double baking.

How double baking is made for large cookies

1. We introduce the cookies in the oven in the same way we do with the cookies of normal size and at the temperature at which we usually bake them.
2. As soon as we see that the edges begin to brown, we take them out of the oven.
3. We turn off the oven and wait 5 minutes. We reintroduce the cookies in the oven and leave them 20 minutes inside.
4. In this way, we get the cookie to just bake in the center and not burn the edges.

How can children decorate the giant cookie

They can do it in a thousand ways, either with fondant, with real icing, with candies (using edible glue), with edible ink routers, with tiny cut fruits, with caramel or chocolate noodles, with melted chocolate ... or whatever you want Make it edible.