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Gingerbread Men

Name: Gingerbread Men
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 36
Ingredients: 2 cups Edmonds Standard Grade Flour (300g); 1 cup Chelsea Soft Brown Sugar, Chelsea Dark Cane Sugar or Chelsea Organic Coconut Sugar (200g); 1 Tbsp ground ginger; ½ tsp Edmonds Baking Soda; 150g butter, cubed; 1 egg, beaten; 1 Tbsp Chelsea Golden Syrup; Icing; 1 egg white; 1 ½ cups Chelsea Icing Sugar (225g); 1 tsp lemon juice; Water, if needed; Gel food colouring (optional); Lollies or currants, to decorate (optional)

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Preparation

20 mins

Bake

10 mins

Difficulty

Easy

Servings

Making gingerbread men is great fun for children - let them help roll out the dough, press out the shapes... then after baking they can have fun decorating!

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Ingredients
Method

Ingredients

2 cups Edmonds Standard Grade Flour (300g)
1 cup Chelsea Soft Brown Sugar, Chelsea Dark Cane Sugar or Chelsea Organic Coconut Sugar (200g)
1 Tbsp ground ginger
½ tsp Edmonds Baking Soda
150g butter, cubed
1 egg, beaten
1 Tbsp Chelsea Golden Syrup

Icing

1 egg white
1 ½ cups Chelsea Icing Sugar (225g)
1 tsp lemon juice
Water, if needed
Gel food colouring (optional)
Lollies or currants, to decorate (optional)

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Golden Syrup

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Do you have to bake the icing? It includes egg white... (Or you can eat the egg white raw but wont that taste weird)

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Reviews

217

What did you think of this recipe?

Cate

So yummy, easy, and I chucked in a bit of cinnamon too as I've been watching too many baking shows and believe I can alter any recipe like a pro.

1500168084

This recipe works really well and is easy to follow!!!!!!!!!

Sophie

Super duper easy to make. Brought them to a Christmas shared lunch and we're a massive hit. We're gone in seconds. 100% recommend.

Sally Scovell

amazing

Ananomous

Very yum but would like to ask if I need to add lemon juice for icing?CHELSEA SUGAR: Adding lemon juice may affect the consistency of your icing, but will be okay if gone without.

Alba

Lovely recipe! Whole family enjoyed! I added cinnamon and allspice for extra flavour, it makes a differance

my name is my name

amazing i added cinamin and mixed spice made them so scrummy

Do you have to bake the icing? It includes egg white... (Or you can eat the egg white raw but wont that taste weird)

CHELSEA SUGAR: Hi there, the icing is a standard royal icing recipe (no need to cook it). It's great for decorating cookies!

your name

yummy not to dry not wet

sosomaga

Very yummy .. a good recipe to save

Method

Preheat oven to 180°C bake (160°C fan-forced). Line two baking trays with baking paper.

Place the Edmonds Standard Grade Flour, Chelsea Sugar, ginger and Edmonds Baking Soda in a bowl or food processor. Add butter and rub in with fingertips or pulse in food processor until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.

Add egg and Chelsea Golden Syrup and stir or pulse to form a dough. If the dough is sticky, add a little more flour until it forms a workable dough. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Roll out on a lightly floured surface or between two sheets of baking paper until 5mm thick. Cut out shapes using biscuit cutters and place on trays. Form leftover dough into a ball and re-roll and repeat cutting out until dough is used up.

Bake for 8-10 minutes, until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack.

Icing
Make icing by beating egg white with a fork until frothy. Fold in the other ingredients to form a pipeable icing. You can test for the correct consistency of icing by dragging a knife over the surface. If the surface smoothes over in approximately 10 seconds, the icing is at the right consistency. Mix in water in very small quantities, until this consistency is achieved.

Colour icing if desired. Place icing in resealable bags or piping bags. Snip off the corner and pipe decorations onto each biscuit. Use icing to attach lollies or currants, if using.