Everything on this card could be eaten. Gingerbread stars with white royal icing sit in the corners, sugar crystals and red candy beads run along the edges, and the heading is piped in thick white icing with a red outline. The hosts’ name is written the same way, so the whole card looks like it came out of one kitchen.
It is made for a cookie decorating night, a gingerbread house party, a Christmas afternoon with small children, or a sweet table at a school or church gathering. Put the family name on it, or Grandma’s, and keep the place simple: somebody’s kitchen.
Plan the evening around the cookies: a tray of plain gingerbread, bowls of icing in three colors, sprinkles, and hot chocolate. Give people two weeks; this is the kind of party they say yes to right away.
