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Yummy Gingerbread People
Submitted by: Ella Wright
This recipe is in categories Baking, Party food, Picnic,
About this recipe:
Difficulty: 3
Comments: Care will be needed with the melting of the sugar, syrup and butter, and with the oven. A fish slice, or something similar, maybe helpful to lift the uncooked gingerbread men onto the baking tray.
Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cooking Time: 20 mins
Number of servings: 20
Serving suggestions: On a plate with choclate cream around each gingerbread man
This is a vegetarian recipe
Gingerbread men are great fun to make and decorate and yummy to eat.
Ingredients
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp mixed spice
- 2 tsp bicarbonate
- 115 g butter
- 100 g golden syrup
- 115 light muscovado sugar
- 1 egg beaten
- 20 cherries
- 85 g icing sugar
- 69 g chocolate liquid
Making and cooking it
- Pre-heat the oven at 160c
- Sift the flour, ginger, mixed spice and bicarbonate of soda into a large bowl
- Place the butter, golden syrup and muscovado sugar in a saucepan over a low heat and stir until melted
- Pour onto the dry ingredients and add the egg
- Mix together to make a dough
- The dough will be sticky to start with, but will become firmer as it cools
- On a lightly floured work surface, roll out the dough to about 3mm thick and stamp out gingerbread people shapes
- Place on the prepared baking trays
- Re-knead and re-roll the trimmings and cut out more shapes
- Decorate with cherries for eyes
- Bake in the pre heated oven for 15-20 mins
- Remove the gingerbread men from the oven
- Now make your icing and decorate the gingerbrad men
- Place them on a plate, then with your chocolate liquid pour around the gingerbread men