CHRISTMAS GINGERBREAD MEN

By fiona
Published: December 3, 2012

• Cook: 10-12 mins

Ingredients

• 140 g butter
• 100 g dark muscovado sugar
• 2 tbsp golden syrup
• 350 g plain flour, sieved
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 heaped tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 2-3 pieces stem ginger, drained from syrup in jar

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 200°C / Fan 190°C / Gas mark 6.
   2. Melt the butter in a saucepan and stir in the sugar and golden syrup.
   3. In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, ginger and cinnamon, along with a pinch of salt. Stir well.
   4. Pour the melted butter mixture, along with the chopped stem ginger into the dry ingredients and mix until it comes together as a ball of dough.
   5. Use a rolling pin to roll the dough out to 5mm thick and stamp out 10-12 gingerbread men using your cookie cutter.
   6. Line two baking trays with silicon paper and carefully place the gingerbread men onto the paper using a palette knife.
   7. Bake for 10-12mins, along to cool on the tray and then transfer onto a wire rack until crunchy.
   8. Dust the gingerbread men with icing sugar and serve. If not serving immediately store in an airtight tin.