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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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Organic Coconut Sugar

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Super tasty recipe. However my dough is super soft and barely workable, followed all the instructions to the T and cooled for over 2 hours but it still came out super soft. When cutting they either stuck to the cutter or the baking paper and when I tried to transfer on to the tray they were squished or became decapitated. Any thoughts on how this could be resolved because I love the taste but gingerbread circles aren't as cool as gingerbread men for the little kids to decorate.

CHELSEA SUGAR: Hi there, the dough for this recipe is usually really nice to work with. It sounds like you may have needed to add a little more flour.

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Reviews

239

What did you think of this recipe?

Melissa Duckworth

Cookies all spread and didn't maintain their shape. Disappointing.

Missing something from this recipe. When followed was literally like breadcrumbs still

Unknown

Add more golden syrup

Susan Meridith

I thought they were delicious. right texture and my kids and I ate them in two days! Definitely recommend for Christmas baking!

Poppy

Have not made it yet but i am so exited to make it

1482104797

Simple and very good recipe. Crisp little gingerbread men. Am making another batch now to make my gingerbread house. Thank you. So glad I found an uncomplicated but lovely recipe.

ur mom

very goffy ahh

Sarah

CHELSEA SUGAR: Hi there, the dough for this recipe is usually really nice to work with. It sounds like you may have needed to add a little more flour.

Patricia

I haven't tried this yet but my daughter is going on camp and I was wondering if they go bad in the sun. If they do, are there any other recipes that don't go bad. (If they don't go bad should I add the icing)? Thanks....

kate

Very yummy wonderful recipe and icing, my kids loved it!

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.