Indian Corn Cookie Ornament for Thanksgiving...

 

Gingerbread Crazy Corn Cobs to decorate a creative place setting

The Thanksgiving feast is a big deal here at the Old Masini Adobe where the heart of Jefferson’s Table abides.  It is a collection of traditions coming originally from Monticello with a rich morphing of the families’ culinary talents, through the years.  Mr. Jefferson was certainly unaware of this holiday and yet we feel sure he created similar banquets that began with a prayer of gratitude for the harvests’ bounty.  We still use some actual recipes from stand out cooks, like Mary Chambers Bankhead’s clove scented pickled beets, and Selma Purgon Bankhead’s, feathery as air, biscuits. We serve Audrey Bankhead Howard’s Savory Stuffing, Beatrice Stockwell’s Tomato Aspic and Ellie Britton’s String Beans every year.  We will post a story about our Buffet in early December.  

For now we are featuring our youngest star cook who represents the tenth generation descended from Jefferson’s table at Monticello.  We are thinking these colorful gingerbread cookies that artfully mimic Indian Corn would have been welcome there?

We started with a good recipe for a sturdy gingerbread like the one on Martha’s website.  

We rolled it out and cut corn cob shapes with a knife.  Next we took a wooden skewer and laid it on the cookie vertically twice and then marked the kernels in a haphazard pattern over all.

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

    We finished with an egg wash... & baked them off!

 

Next our little star cook took the baked cookies and began to decorate with assorted colors made with powdered sugar, a tiny bit of water and food coloring.  She used a wooden skewer to make big droplets of frosting that look amazingly like big crazy corn kernels.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next we took some corn husks that are now packaged in the markets for holiday tamale making and we cut them to look like the pointed leaves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

and then made a ribbon to tie around the husk gathered at the top.

We finished a big basket full to decorate the center of each plate and to have a tasty favor for our guests to take home along with several of the Thanksgiving Buffet 2009 recipes that we printed out.

We send Best Wishes for a Heart warming, delicious Thanksgiving filled with Family Traditions.

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[Stephanie]

This is so clever! Can't believe little ones can do it - wonder if I can!?

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[Mr. P]

OMG what a cool idea!

I have to 'entertain' my nephews next weekend... Think I know what we'll be doing now.

[Jessie]

great ornaments such a fun interactive project for the little ones.

[Shirley]

Yes a fun way to involve kids in Thanksgiving.

[Claudia]

Clever, delicious and too much fun!

[Blackswan]

You're sooooo creative! These look so real :)

[Vegetable Matter]

Well done! Would have never thought of these, but what a great family project!

[Divina]

That looks very festive and the kids are enjoying. This is a very unique ornament for Thanksgiving.

[foodlovee]

very cute so fun with children

[Brie]

those cookies are so cute! great idea!

[The Foodie Forkful]

What a fun idea! We'll have to make those in a few years when my son (now 6 months) gets older.

[Lisa]

Clever! It looks like you had fun making them.

[My Man's Belly]

How cute are those!

[Natasha - 5 Star Foodie]

Awesome idea! This would be a great project to do with my daughter! Have a great thanksgiving!

[Joanne]

That is such a great idea! Good for you and your little decorator.

[jenn]

That's really neat. Definitely a cool way to get kids involved in the kitchen.