Gather your favorite cookie cutters and rolling pin, and let’s start baking! Cut out cookies are a classic Christmas treat ...

Using cutters, cut out the gingerbread men shapes and place on the baking tray, leaving a gap between them. Bake for 12–15 minutes, or until lightly golden-brown. Leave on the tray for 10 ...

She would bake a sheet of gingerbread, then pull out stencils she had made from file folders to carefully cut the walls and roof of the houses. But these were the homesteading equivalent of candy ...

Re-roll the trimmings and use to cut out the chimney pieces, three Christmas trees and three triangles to use as supports to help the trees stand upright. Bake the gingerbread for 7–8 minutes.