Gingerbread man
Makes 12 big gingerbread men
Easy
Prep:
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Even the smallest hands can help make these gingerbread men – perfect for Christmas. You can use raisins, sultanas or Smarties to decorate
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Units:
- 140g unsalted butter
- 100g dark muscovado sugar
- 3 tbsp golden syrup
- 350g plain flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- pinch of cayenne pepper(optional)
- 2 balls stem gingerfrom a jar, chopped
To decorate
- 50g icing sugar
- a few glacé cherries(we used undyed)
- 2 balls stem ginger
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal264
- fat10g
- saturates6g
- carbs43g
- sugars20g
- fibre1g
- protein3g
- salt0.33glow
Method
step 1
Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Line 2 baking sheets with baking parchment.
step 2
Melt butter, sugar and syrup in a pan.
step 3
Mix flour, soda, spices and a pinch of salt in a bowl. Stir in the butter mix and chopped ginger to make a stiff-ish dough.
step 4
Wait until cool enough to handle, then roll out dough to about 5mm thick. Stamp out gingerbread men, re-rolling and pressing the trimmings back together and rolling again.
step 5
Lift onto baking sheets. Bake for 12 mins until golden. Cool 10 mins on the sheets, then lift onto cooling racks.
step 6
To decorate, mix icing sugar with a few drops of water until thick and smooth. Halve then slice cherries thinly to make smiles, and cut ginger into small squares.
step 7
Spoon icing into a food bag, snip off the tiniest bit from one corner, then squeeze eyes and buttons, and a tiny smile onto 1 man at a time. Stick on a cherry smile and ginger buttons. Repeat; leave to set. Will keep up to 1 week in an airtight tin.
