Jamie Magazine
By Phillippa Spence
Gingerbread people
40 mins plus cooling
Not Too Tricky
makes 14
About the recipe
Kids will love making, decorating and eating these biscuits – but let’s face it, more the eating! They can either be given as gifts, or used to decorate the tree. Make things more fun with a variety of cutters.
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Ingredients
300g plain flour
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
2 teaspoons ground ginger
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
125g unsalted butter
100g soft light brown sugar
3 tablespoons golden syrup
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC/gas 4 and line 2 baking sheets with baking paper. In a large bowl combine the flour, bicarbonate of soda and the spices.
- Melt the butter, sugar and golden syrup in a pan over a low heat and stir until the sugar dissolves, then add it to the dry ingredients. Stir in until it forms a stiff dough, then cut it in half.
- Transfer the paper from the baking sheets to a work surface and place a portion of the dough on each. Roll out to 5mm thick, then cut out directly on the paper, leaving a 2cm gap between each. Save the cuttings to make more people, or round ginger biscuits.
- Carefully lift the papers back onto the baking sheets and bake the gingerbread in the oven for about 12 minutes, or until lightly golden.
- Leave to cool on the sheet for a few minutes – if you want to hang them as decorations, now is the time to pierce a hole through the top of each with a skewer – then move to a wire rack.
- Once cool, ice the gingerbread men and decorate with sprinkles, sweets and edible glitter.
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