Gingerbread Snowman

Here is another Christmas gingerbread creation that was inspired by a lack of resources, a lack of time, and a lack of patience. You see, we were supposed to be creating full, free-standing gingerbread houses. The gingerbread dough was already done, but needed to be cut and baked. Then quickly cooled, assembled, and decorated with icing that was yet to be made. All of this was to be completed within a period of about an hour and a half. That would be no easy feat. We could not decide what type of house to make, or how to cut the dough, or what template to use, but knew it had to be quickly baked so it could be quickly cooled. So we rolled the dough out to fit a cookie sheet and baked it that way. Because we had a lot of dough, but not enough to make a big house, and the dough was still fairly warm, we weren't confident in assembling a house. We also wanted to try something a little different than the typical gingerbread house; in stores these days you'll see trains, carousals, and more. So the idea to cut the gingerbread rectangle into a snowman was formed, giving us the leftover corners to munch on. A gingerbread snowman was much quicker and easier to decorate, and there were no worries of stability issues.
As you can see, this is not a very elaborately decorated gingersnowman, but it could be. It could be completely frosted to make it white if desired. Candies, chocolates, jelly beans, sprinkles, coconut, and more could be used for decoration. Licorice makes great arms.