Peanuts Gang Gingerbread Men - Gingerbread Blog Hop and Giveaway

Another fun Blog Hop and Giveaway for you, brought to you by Beth from Hungry Happenings and Jill from Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons.  This one is a Gingerbread Theme!

A Gingerbread Party??! Well how could I not join in?!  Gingerbread and this time of year go hand in hand, so for this one, I did gingerbread men all dressed up as our favorite Peanuts characters.  

I've done character gingerbread men before, like Super Hero Gingerbread Men, Disney Princesses Gingerbread, and Star Wars Gingerbread Men, and I always have fun doing them.  We just watched A Charlie Brown Christmas the other night, which the kids love, so I figured they would be perfect this year.

I used a pre-made mix for the gingerbread, just to speed the process up a little.  Then just roll out and cut the gingerbread cookie forms out.  Sometimes I even do these ahead of time and freeze the cut out cookies (un-iced) so that I can do them later.  Because Snoopy and Woodstock are smaller, I cut out a section of their middle before baking, then just put the "head" and "feet" parts back together.  It worked out well!

The detail is done with royal icing (white for Snoopy, yellow for Woodstock, and flesh colors for the gangs' heads, hands).  The rest of the detail is done with candy melts in various colors.  You could always use royal icing for the colors too, but I have candy melt in a plethora of colors, so this works better/faster for me, versus tinting a whole bunch of icing colors.

Hopefully you recognize your fav characters, but just in case here they are:

Snoopy and Woodstock were tough in gingerbread men form, but I'm ok with how they came out.

I always wonder if Lucy and Schroeder and Linus and Sally ended up together and married.  Maybe the girls finally wore the boys down.

Peppermint Patty has always been one of my favs! Yes Sir!

Pig-Pen came out better than I was thinking he would!  I used edible food writer to add the "dirt" on is face.  I didn't even know Frieda's name until I looked it up, and Franklin just sits back and observes the silliness going on.

AND now onto the Give the Gift of Gingerbread Blog Hop and Giveaway! WooHoo!  Look at this really fun giveaway - I really wish I could partake!

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And Please check out ALL the fun Gingerbread Stuff from this awesomely awesome group of bloggers! I know I will be visiting them all today.

Use the links below to hop from blog to blog 

to see these wonderful gingerbread themed recipes

1. No Gingerbread Boy and Girl Cookie Pops by Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons

2. Caramel Cocoa Egg Nog Custard Gingerbread Men by Hungry Happenings

3. Gingerbread Angle Ornament by Haniela's

4. Gingerbread Men Bubble Bath by Creative Kids Snacks

5. Peeps Gingerbread Men Cookie Pops by Pint Sized Baker

6. Gingerbread Decorating Ideas by Living Locurto

7. Peanuts Gang Gingerbread Men by Sugar Swings

8. Gingerbread House Cookie Bites by The Decorated Cookie

9. Gingerbread Cookie Christmas Trees by Munchkin' Munchies

10. Gingerbread Men Cookies by The Barefoot Baker

11. Gingerbread Sleigh Ride by the Partiologist

12. Mini Fudge Gingerbread Housed by Hoopla Palooza

13. Chocolate Gingerbread Cake by Bird on a Cake

14. Simple Gingerbread Christmas Trees by Sweet Sugar Belle

15. Gingerbread Cookie Cups by Creative Juice

16. Gingerbread Puppy Chow by Make Bake Celebrate

17. No Bake Gingerbread Heads by Party Pinching

18. Snowboarding Gingerbread Peeps by Sweet Simple Stuff

19. Gingerbread S'More Houses with Boozy Eggnog Marshmallow Filling by 1 Fine Cookie

20.Sugar Plum Gingerbread House by Miss CandiQuick

Thanks to our amazing sponsors, you have a chance to win all of these prizes:

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Wilton - Gingerbread Decorating Prize Pack $50 value

Cheap Cookie Cutters - $50 Gift Card

Sweet Works - Candy Prize Pack $25 value

Easy Lunchboxes - lunch box set $22 value

Karen's Cookies - $20 gift card

Sweet Simple Stuff - Cake Pop Prize Pack $20 value

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Here are all the FB pages to make it easier for you too, GOOD LUCK!!  And a big thank you to Jill and Beth for doing all the leg work and including me in the party.  I really hope you like the Peanuts Gang in Gingerbread form.  Hard to believe it's only 2 weeks to Christmas!