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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

239

What did you think of this recipe?

Lollies4u777

My daughter loved decorating the cookies (and eating the dough as well)!

Jen

Very nice!

Anna

Amazing this is the best gingerbread recipe ever!

Alexander

yummy

Veronica

This is the best Gingerbread Men recipe I have found. We use it all the time. I leave out the golden Syrup for a lighter colour and texture. Chelsea is the first place I come to for great baking recipes they tend to be the best.

Unknown

Easy with a 3 1/2 wee girl.. Esp when using the processer... great treat to leave out for Santa.. :0)

Elise

A gooey mess! Even though I had measured everything carefully then refrigerated the dough for over an hour, it was too soft. The gingerbread men stuck to the cutter shape and the baking paper beneath. The only sensible thing I found was to roll walnut sized pieces of dough between my hands and then flatten then on the baking tray to make something resembling ginger nut biscuits. I liked the taste of the biscuits.

j collier

Really yum and gingery. Was a bit soft to roll so popped back in fridge a couple of times in between.

Billy

very amazing

Clover

I love it me and my brother love to make 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.