A woman has shared her dad's hilarious attempt to make her a cookie cutter, with some people claiming they never want to eat a standard gingerbread man again.

Crucially, this set comes with five different sizes of gingerbread person. The largest measures 4.85x3.82", which is a great size for little kids who are still honing their piping skills to decorate.

You’ll need a gingerbread man cookie cutter, tubes of pre-made decorating icing with a very thin tip in green, black and red (or make your own to work with piping bags) and sugar “googly eyes” ...

Use a 3-inch gingerbread man cookie cutter to cut out shapes and add a spacing about an inch apart to the baking sheet. Step 5. Bake for 7-10 minutes until the edges are beginning to brown.

Here's my perfect gingerbread man ... just plain. Fox ... batch will make approximately 2 dozen cookies when the dough is rolled about 1/4" thick and cut with "standard size" cookie cutters ...

Cookie Cutter – Tree, Gingerbread Man, Snowflake, Star – 4 Pk. Bread and Butter Cookie Cutter – Tree, Gingerbread Man, Snowflake, Star – 4 Pk, $13.95, from Woolworths.