Gingerbread Men

These easy and simple gingerbread men can be given as gifts and shared amongst family and friends. Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without the perfect batch of gingerbread cookies!

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Ingredients
Gingerbread

• 2 tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• ½ tsp ground allspice
• 1 tsp bi-carb soda
• 2 1/2 cups plain flour
• 130g butter, softened
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 4tbsp golden syrup
• 1 egg

Royal Icing

• 1 egg white
• 1 ½ cups icing sugar
• 1 tsp lemon juice

Method
Gingerbread
Preheat the oven to 180˚C and line a tray with baking paper.

Sift the ground ginger, cinnamon, allspice, bi-carb soda and flour into a food processor.

Add the butter.

Pulse until the mixture resembles bread crumbs.

Add the sugar.

Beat the golden syrup and egg separately in a small bowl.

Pour into the breadcrumbed mixture.

Pulse until mixture forms a dough.

Knead the dough for about 2 minutes.

Wrap and refrigerate the dough for 20 minutes.

Roll out the dough to a 0.5mm thickness on a lightly floured surface.

Cut out gingerbread men from the dough using a gingerbread man cookie cutter.

Place onto the baking tray.

Bake for 8 minutes.

Leave to cool for 30 minutes on a wire rack before preparing the icing.

Royal Icing:
Combine the egg white, icing sugar, and lemon until the icing is thick and smooth.
Using a piping bag, decorate your gingerbread men.

Happy Baking!

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