Cakes & bakes
Christmas

Gingerbread

Name: Gingerbread
Ingredients: 375 g plain flour; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 3 tsps ground ginger; 120 g unsalted butter (cold & cubed); 175 g light brown sugar; 5 tbsps golden syrup; 1 medium egg

Ingredients 7
Steps 7

Method

Preheat your oven to 190C/180C Fan and line 3-4 baking trays with parchment paper (or do it in two batches if you only have two trays!)
Add the flour, bicarbonate of soda, and ginger to a large bowl and add the cold, cubed butter to the bowl
Rub together with your fingers until it resembles breadcrumbs! (Or mix the four ingredients in a food processor till its breadcrumbs!)
Mix the sugar into the mix and combine, and then add the golden syrup and egg - beat with a spatula/your hands until it is a smooth dough.
Knead the biscuit dough, and then roll the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface.
Roll it out to 1/2cm thickness and cut out your desired shapes! I did gingerbread men, snowmen, and Christmas trees!
Place them on the lined baking trays and bake in the oven for 10-11 minutes, cool on a wire rack fully, and then decorate how you please!