Submitted by: Ella Wright

This recipe is in categories Baking, Party food, Picnic,

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.

• 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

1. Pre-heat the oven at 160c
2. Sift the flour, ginger, mixed spice and bicarbonate of soda into a large bowl
3. Place the butter, golden syrup and muscovado sugar in a saucepan over a low heat and stir until melted
4. Pour onto the dry ingredients and add the egg
5. Mix together to make a dough
6. The dough will be sticky to start with, but will become firmer as it cools
7. On a lightly floured work surface, roll out the dough to about 3mm thick and stamp out gingerbread people shapes
8. Place on the prepared baking trays
9. Re-knead and re-roll the trimmings and cut out more shapes
10. Decorate with cherries for eyes
11. Bake in the pre heated oven for 15-20 mins
12. Remove the gingerbread men from the oven
13. Now make your icing and decorate the gingerbrad men
14. Place them on a plate, then with your chocolate liquid pour around the gingerbread men