This recipe for gingerbread can be used to make a whole range of decorations, gifts and of course gingerbread people and animals.
Make decorating these adorable gingerbread people even easier (and less messy!) with tubes of shop-bought icing and sweets. Get the kids involved too.
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Total time: 30 minutes
Makes: 20 gingerbread people (approx.)
What You Need:
- Baking trays
- Baking parchment
- Sieve
- Mixing bowl
- Saucepan
- Oven
- Biscuit cutter or template to cut around (people, animals, bell shaped…)
Ingredients:
125g unsalted butter
100g dark muscovado sugar
4 tbsp golden syrup
325g plain flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 tsp ground ginger
Colourful Writing Icing or sweets (optional)
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 170°C, gas mark 3. Line your baking trays with baking parchment. Melt the butter, sugar and syrup in a medium saucepan, stirring occasionally, then remove from the heat.
- Sieve the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger into a bowl and stir the melted ingredients into the dry ingredients to make a stiff dough.
- Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and roll to a thickness of about 5mm. Dip biscuit cutters into flour before cutting the dough (or cut around templates).
- Place the shapes onto the lined baking trays and bake, in batches, for 9-10 minutes until light golden brown.
- Remove from the oven. While still warm, and using a skewer or chopstick, make any holes that you will need to hang up the biscuits with ribbon or to make a yuletide garland.
- When completely cool, decorate with the icing. The gingerbread biscuits can be stored in an airtight container for up to two weeks.
