I wouldn't say i'm the best at baking or cooking to be honest and i don't normally adventure much further from boxed cake mixtures but yesterday was different!
I decided to have a look online for a EASY gingerbread man recipe and found hundreds! I decided to stick with this one from the BBC Good Food website it was simple and i had all the ingredients apart from a few things that i decided was optional not to add in! The website suggested that it makes 12 big gingerbread men but i managed to make 15 with my cutter!
So to make your army of gingerbread men you will need :
♥ 140g unsalted butter
♥ 100g of dark muscovado sugar
♥ 3 tablespoons of golden syrup
♥ 350g of plain flour
♥ 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
♥ 2 teaspoons of ground ginger
♥ 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon ( I didn't have this in the cupboard so decided to leave it out! )
♥ An optional pinch of cayenne pepper ( I also didn't have this so decided to leave it out and it did say optional! )
♥ 2 balls of stem ginger ( I also didn't have this so decided to leave it out! )
Once you have all of the ingredients you're ready to get your BAKE on!
♥ Firstly you will need to preheat your oven to 200c and line 2 baking trays ready for all your men to bake on.
♥ You will then need to melt the butter, sugar and syrup in a pan and leave to cool down while move onto the next step.
♥ You then need to mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda, ginger and a pinch of salt ( I also didn't put the pinch of salt in! ) in a bowl together.
♥ You then will need to take the butter, sugar and syrup that you have just melted and mix it into the flour, soda and ginger.
♥ The mixture may still be hot from the melted butter, sugar and syrup so you will need to wait till it is cool enough to handle and then roll out the dough and start pressing out your gingerbread men!
♥ Once you have pressed out your army of gingerbread men put them in the oven to bake, i put mine on for 12 minutes and they came out a beautiful golden colour.
♥ Leave for about 10 minutes to cool down and then here comes the fun bit! ICING & DECORATING!
I'll leave the icing bit up to you as you will know how you want your gingerbread men or women to look like! I decided that mine should be all gingerbread men as they all looked manly and strong coming out of the oven! I used a tube of white icing sugar to decorate their faces and to put three buttons on them. I also had little sliver balls for their eyes and smarties and pink balls for their buttons!
Once they were all decorated i handed them all out to my family to try one and they all said how lovely they were! My little sister isn't a massive fan of gingerbread men but she ate one and said that they were very tasty! I thought they tasted lovely and they weren't hard to make at all! I'd strongly suggest making some if you have a spare half an hour! I may even make another army of gingerbread men and bring them
into work towards the end of the week!
Let me know if you try this simple recipe out. I'd love to hear how they turn out!
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