From the previous baking day Robyn and I thought that we might want to create our own templates as the cutter we used was a bit larger than we wanted. In the images mine is on the left and Robyn's on the right. Although they turned out okay, we both felt that neither was going to work for us, mine looked too much like a mens' toilet sign whereas Robyn's reminded us of the fat, lazy people from the film Walle.
Making the gingerbread in various positions was easier this time around as we took into consideration what we had learned on the previous baking day. We supported the head of
the lying down figure with foil, and as another technique we stuck
cocktail sticks into the arms, hoping they would help keep the dough up.
We also wanted to have gingerbread men pushing a rolling pin in our storyboard,
which means that they have to lean forward in order to get down to the
rolling pin and we did this by wrapping foil round a slice of rolled up
bread and sticking cocktail sticks in the arms to hold them up. One of the end results seen above on the right was before we decided to stick cocktail sticks in the arms to keep them in place.
As the previous attempts of trying to make the gingerbread sit up failed this was our last attempt. We took a cake tin and greased the outside with butter to help the dough stick with to the tin. However while cooking the dough still slid down on some where the others just folded down. Another technique we tried was using the bread rolls and placing the gingerbread on the edge with the legs dangling down. The results can be seen in second row in the picture on the right, instead of sitting up they roll.
The last part of the day was taken up with working out the decoration for the gingerbread men. We agreed that for the buttons the larger men will have smarties and the smaller men for the army will get buttons made using icing. Also what started as a cover up of a crack the 'dickie bow' is now going to be a feature.
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