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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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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!

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Reviews

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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

Rrrrrrr

It is awesomely awesome and fun to make.

Pearl_is_awesome_:)

YUMMY! #number1, awesome cookies but i did add a bit more sugar because its really gingery :) (i made my one on a hot day and they turn out awesome)

Natalya

This makes the best gingerbread men. LOVE this recipe.

Mike Barrell

These are very easy to make and I made about 40 cookies using a Christmas tree cutter....And my wonderful partner helped me make them as well and we had to put them in the oven for 12 minutes they came out really good nice and crunchy.......

Michelle

Sooo good

Mellany

What an awesome recipe, quick and easy, best of all very tasty.

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.