Runaway Gingerbread Man for Eating

I discovered this Runaway Gingerboy Cookie Kit By Gingerhaus® at a local store while browsing last week and was amused.  Gingerbread men are everywhere, especially during the holiday season, but few play off the fairy tale with a nonstandard pose.  So the Runaway Gingerbread Boy made me smile and I remembered it when I got home and looked for images online to share with you.  Here they are from Amazon.

I also saw these, a Night Before Christmas cookie cutter set and another runaway gingerbread man cookie cutter sans kit. 

So how many of you make Gingerbread Men and Women during the holidays?

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Just for Fun: Gingerbread Man Cake Pans

So Halloween is gone and we all have the winter holidays on the immediate horizon which often involve lots of sweets and eating whichever ones you celebrate.  Another one of my minor obsessions is cake pans and baking.  I own quite a few novelty cake pans and this is the time of year I begin to think about adding a new pan to my collection, either for myself or through my gift wish list. (I am notoriously hard to buy for since books and hats are my main addictions.)  This year I chose the village at Williams-Sonoma since it sold out before I could get it last year, but there were some other temptations.  Today, I present the Gingerbread Boys and Girls:

Wilton Gingerbread Boys and Trees Pan

Nordic Ware Gingerbread Loaf Pan

Wilton Gingerbread Boy Ginger Bread Girl Christmas Holiday Snowman Clown Cake Pan Mold (2105-3313, 1998)

Wilton Bite Size Gingerbread 9 Cavity

Chicago Metallic Non-Stick Gingerbread Man Pan

Now doesn't that make you want to go read a fairy tale, say, The Gingerbread Man, again?

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Gingerbread Man at Google

This is totally random but it amused me for a few moments so I am posting it here for myself if no one else.

From Google show off their new Android 3.0 Gingerbread OS literally with video by Matt Tran:

Google in their typical cheeky fashion has given us a massive clue that they are preparing to release their new Gingerbread 3.0 OS. The company in a very subtle move, decided basically to erect a big 3 meter tall gingerbread man on the front lawn of their mountain view HQ.

You can watch a video of the Google team delivering the massive statue in a big white van, embedded below courtesy of Electric Pig. In the past Google has humorously used statues of sweet treats to announce their new products, such as a big frozen yogurt (Froyo Android 2.2), a cupcake and eclair. The video has cleverly been titled “We’ve been baking something… and it’s pretty sweet”. Very witty but by now Google’s front lawn must look like something from the fairytale Hansel and Gretel.

And, yes, I keep thinking of Google taunting, "Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me, etc." which is rather apt for a software program anyway.

And now part of me wants that Gingerbread Man for my front yard.

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