I'm not great at following recipes, I tend to skip bits of the recipe because I am in such a rush to get it over and done with! (Not a fan of cooking as you can see!)
One of the steps that I found difficult was to know when the dough was tough enough. If I didn't kneed the dough enough then it would be too moist and most probably would stick all over the counter when I rolled the dough put. So I think I may have let the dough go too hard but in the end I must admit that they were VERY tasty!
One of the silliest steps in the recipe was that I had to roll out the dough to 0.5cm thickness which I doubt anyone is going to be careful enough to measure how thick their dough is. I personally found that when I rolled out the dough to 0.5cm thickness it was extremely hard to cut out the gingerbread men because when I lifted them off the counter try would tear because the dough was so thin.
I rolled the dough out much thicker and it we easier to cut out the gingerbread men. Who said we have to follow recipes strictly?
Overall, I would describe them to be delicious. I'm not in a rush to make them again though!!
