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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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Reviews

231

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Unknown

Great recipe 100% recommend!

Diane

My grandchildren love these biscuits. So easy to make and delicious.

hugh

it good but too thick i couldn't spread em

Emily

I just wasted my time + food. It didn't work! I can't even roll it out, it just crumbles up. PLEASE HELP!!!

Unknown

Love this recipe! I made them with my grandma over Christmas last year. Totally recommend!

Stephanie

Great tasting recipe, and easy to make (although needed a bit longer in the fridge to harden). Sadly, I didn't get many Gingerbread Men out of the batch because my 5yr old kept eating the raw dough :)

Rosina Ali

First ever making gingerbread men and was really happy how it turned out but the only thing that needed more was the flour. I noticed that when i rolled the dough out it was fulling apart. But overall i did well.

Liz

This is now our tried and trusted annual Kirihimete cookie tradition. We too add a bit of cinnamon. Mƒ´haro!

Balin Kenworthy

Great! Sooo fun to make! Yummmm!

Narissa

Yummy and it makes plenty of cookies I love this recipe

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.