It was universally agreed – and by universally, I strictly mean the universe that is our home – that we absolutely needed gingerbread this Christmas. At first the kids kind of balked at the idea of raw gingerbread but that didn’t last for long. I always remind them that they’ve never had a raw dessert that they didn’t like. I just knew that gingerbread would not be the exception. In fact, I was imagining eating the stuff right out of the bowl. Honestly, who knew if we would ever get to making cookies! The thing that kept us going was all that vibrant icing. Melissa went crazy making all kinds…