Christmas for kids recipe for 15-20 people, takes only 10 mins; recipe has plain flour, salt, bicarbonate of soda, ground ginger, cinnamon, butter, soft brown sugar and golden syrup.
Gingerbread men
Course: Christmas for kids
Servings
15 - 20
servings
Prep time
30 mins
Ingredients
- Butter: 50g unsalted butter
- Cinnamon: 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- Plain Flour: 225g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
- Bicarbonate Of Soda: 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- Salt: 1/2 tsp salt
- Ground Ginger: 1 heaped tsp ground ginger
- Golden Syrup: 100g golden syrup
- Soft Brown Sugar: 100g soft brown sugar
Directions
- Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5 and line abaking traywith baking parchment. Sieve the flour, salt, bicarb, ginger and cinnamon into a large bowl. Heat the butter, sugar and syrup until dissolved. Leave the sugar mixture to cool slightly, then mix into the dry ingredients to form a dough. Chill the dough in the fridge for 30 mins.
- On a surface lightly dusted with flour, roll out the dough to a 1/4 -inch thickness. Stamp out the gingerbread men shapes with a cutter, then re-roll any off-cuts and repeat. Place your gingerbread shapes on the lined trays, allowing space for them to spread. Cook for 10-15 mins, then remove from the oven and leave to cool.
