This is the recipe I used to make my gingerbread house, but it can be just as easily used to make biscuits of any size or shape, including the traditional gingerbread men/women.
Recipe
100g caster sugar
125g butter/marg
25g Golden syrup
325g plain flour
4tsp ground ginger
1/2tsp ground cinnamon
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 eggs beaten
Baking trays lined with non stick silicone paper
Pan
Method
1. Preheat your oven to 160oC, Gas mark 3, 140oC fan oven.
2. In the pan put the caster sugar, butter, and golden syrup and heat until all the sugar has dissolved. Only heat it until the sugar has melted, don't allow to boil.
3. Sift the bicarbonate of soda, ground cinnamon, grounf ginger and plain flour in to a bowl and add the melted butter mixture and the beaten eggs to it. Mix until you make a stiff dough. cover the bowl and leave to cool for 20 minutes.
4. Roll out the dough on a floured surface, to about 4mm thick, cut in to what ever shape you want to make it, place on the lined baking trays and bake for 10 minutes.
5. Leave to cool on the trays for 5 minutes so that the gingerbread becomes more solid. Then place on a cooling racj to fully cool and hard.
6. Decorate with icing or melted chocolate and any other decorations you fancy adding.
Enjoy!
Tip
For funky gingerbread men ideas, I purchased a book "Dress your gingerbread men" by Joanna Farrow. ISBN:978-1-84601-369-0
Lots of cool fun ideas and some more recipes.
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