As the name says, gingerbread men are comprised entirely of gingerbread dough, baked and hardened, their limbs and physique crafted to look like a humanoid figure. Their faces, painted with icing, show a cheerful expression and they possess a rather kind and caring disposition. Gingerbread men are crafted and molded out of dough and sugar by truffles who are either bored or lonesome. Then they mould a little figure out of gingerbread dough as a friend and playmate. Although the resulting gingerbread men eventually go their own ways and explore beautiful Candia, they usually form a lifelong friendship with the truffles that have baked them.