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Gingerbread man recipe

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With ground cloves and ginger, this scrumptious gingerbread man recipe is packed with rich flavours. The kids will love getting involved with baking these wonderfully festive treats. See method

Makes 12 gingerbread men
20 mins to prepare and 20 mins to cook, 5 mins to cool
129 calories / serving
Freezable

Ingredients

65g unsalted butter, softened
50g golden caster sugar
2 tbsp golden syrup
160g plain flour
a little plain flour, for dusting
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp ground cloves

For the icing

50g (2oz) icing sugar
a little boiling water

Each serving contains

Energy
545kj
129kcal 6%
Fat
5g 7%
Saturates
3g 14%
Sugars
11g 12%
Salt
0.1g 2%

of the reference intake
Carbohydrate 21.7g Protein 1.4g Fibre 0.6g

Method

Pre-heat the oven to 170°C and line a couple of baking trays with nonstick baking paper.
Melt the butter, syrup and sugar in a saucepan over a low heat, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat once melted.
Sieve together the flour, ground spices, bicarbonate of soda and stir the melted ingredients into the dry ingredients to make a dough. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and roll to 5mm thickness.
Use a gingerbread man cookie cutter to cut out 12 shapes from the dough. Place them on the lined baking trays and bake for 8-10 minutes until just set and starting to colour at the edges.
Remove from the oven and allow them to cool on the trays for 5 minutes before lifting carefully onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Whisk together the icing sugar and a little boiling water to make a smooth icing in a small mixing bowl. Fill a small piping bag fitted with a very small pinhole nozzle with the icing. Pipe a border of icing around the gingerbread men and smiley faces as well.

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Allow the icing to set then serve once cool.