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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

What did you think of this recipe?

Dylan

Amazing

Ishi

I made these with my mother and we both loved baking & eating them so much. The only thing I would say is that you might want to add a bit more ginger - I found them a little plain.

Zoe Williams

it was yum

zoe

i made it to eat the dough. the dough was delicous (dont mind my spelling). 5 star!!

Tracey

I replaced ginger with 1t MIxed Spice which worked really well and was more than enough spice!

poopoo

its in da oven yummy yum yum yum

mr bean

to the people that think its yuck: you either have terrible taste buds or your baking wrong. these biscuits are delicious and the star to our table every christmas. 5 star!

Lee

This recipe didn't work, and had to be altered mid-stride. I followed the instructions and ended up with a dry, powdery mess that needed more moisture. Adding 2 tsp boiling water (recommendation from another recipe I found online) to the ingredients solved the problem.

zyah

thebest

Candy

Great Christmas cookies. Easy to do.

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.