These treats are great for christmas and super tasty.
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| Finished gingerbread people. |
Ingredients you will need:
- 12oz / 350g plain flour (you will need extra for rolling out the dough)
- 6oz / 175g light soft brown sugar
- 4½oz / 125g butter - 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 tsp of ground ginger
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 free-range egg
- 4 tbsp golden syrup
Method:
Step 1: Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda, ginger and cinnamon into a food processor and mix together slightly.
Step 2: Add the butter to the flour mixture and blend in the food processor until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
Step 3: Next stir in the sugar.
Step 4: Lightly beat the egg and golden syrup together and then add to the mixture in the food processor. Pulse the mixture until it clumps together.
Step 5: Tip out the dough and knead briefly until the dough is smooth. Then wrap in clingfilm and place into the fridge to chill for around 15 minutes.
Step 6: Preheat the oven to 180ºC/ 350ºF and line two baking trays with greaseproof paper.
Step 7: Roll out the dough onto a lightly floured surface to about half a centimetre in thickness. Using whatever cutters you would like cut out the biscuits and place onto the baking tray. The biscuits will spread a little so make sure that there is space between your biscuits.
Step 8: Bake for around 10-15 minutes depending on the size of your biscuits or until the biscuits are lightly golden brown.
Step 9: Remove from the oven and leave on the baking tray to cool for around 10 minutes and then transfer to cooling racks to cool completely.
Step 10: Once cooled it's time to decorate! I used a simple icing to decorate mine; I simply mixed icing sugar with a little splash of water and mixed together adding more sugar and water until I reached the consistency I was after. I just added a small amount of food colouring to add some extra details. Practice makes perfect with this step so just keep going even if your first one doesn't look just as you want it to!
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