One of the Christmas traditions in our house when our son was little was for me to make ginger date cookies, while he 'helped'. He is with us this year for the first time in several years, and he wanted to revive that tradition. This time, he actually did a lot of the work. The dough is very sticky, so it takes quite a bit of shaping the logs on the cookie sheets. Here he is on the right, shaping the dough. On the left, top to bottom we have the dough on the sheets ready for the oven, the logs just after coming out of the oven, and the cookies cut up and put in a tin. They won't be there for long!