Baking Instructions:
Slap your favorite rock n' roll slab on the ol' turntable and fix yourself a cocktail. Grab a couple of large mixing bowls, some measuring cups and spoons, an electric mixer, a paring knife and a rolling pin. In a mixing bowl, beat the butter and brown sugar together until fluffy. Add the egg, honey, vanilla and libation of choice, and beat it. Grab that other mixing bowl, and toss in the flour, spices, soda and salt, stirring until combined well. Stir that into the butter mixture. Cover and chill in the fridge until firm enough to roll out. Now, fix yourself another drink and flip that record.

Turn oven to 375°. Divide chilled dough in half. On a lightly floured surface, roll out one half so it's about 1/4 inch thick. Grab your handy-dandy guitar cookie stencil and trace around the outside of the stencil with the tip of your paring knife. Repeat until the dough is rocked out. Carefully place the cookies on ungreased cookie sheets and bake in the 375° oven for 8 to 10 minutes. Cool for one minute and transfer to cooling rack with a spatula. Be careful not to break the necks!

Decorating Instructions:
When the cookies are cooled, make the icing by combining 1 cup of the confectioner's sugar, 1/2 tsp vanilla and enough milk to form an icing that's thin enough to spread easily, but still clings to a knife (use the milk sparingly, as it won't take much). Spread the icing on the cookies, and before they've dried, place 3 li'l silver candy balls on the headstock of each guitar cookie, and sprinkle green or red candy sprinkles or sugar crystals on the body of the cookie. When the icing has set a bit, combine the remaining cup of the confectioner's sugar, 1/2 tsp vanilla, and enough milk to make a thick icing for the guitar strings. Divide icing in half. Add red food coloring to one half and green to the other. Using a piping bag and small tip, (Hey, don't laugh! Small tips are no laughing matter!) pipe 3 green strings on the red guitar cookies and 3 red strings on the green cookies. Pipe on a control knob or two for that realistic effect. If your hands aren't steady, or you don't have these fancy decoratin' gadgets, a couple of strips of red or green shoestring licorice would work here, too; however, you'll have to do that before the initial icing layer is dry. When the cookies are decorated, they'll take at least a few hours to set. That's more than enough time to read all the Lowbrow Lowdown archives intently.

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