1.   After all, there are more important things to debate than the supposed gender of a gingerbread cookie.

2.   Giant homemade wooden gingerbread cookies share billing with giant homemade copies of Bert and Ernie.

3.   In Germany and elsewhere in Europe, gingerbread cookies and cakes were an important part of holiday fairs.

4.   In the end, Granny gives the pirates her recipe for gingerbread cookies, they become honest bakers in old Virginia and she is released.

5.   Leftover gingerbread cookies and shortbread meet the same fate and are particularly prized for cheesecake.

6.   The traditional gingerbread man cookie is, well, a man.

7.   With this in mind, a recipe for gingerbread cookies appears on the back of the book jacket.