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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?

Selena

So easy to make, and they taste delicious. My grandchildren were a bit skeptical at eating them, now its their favourite biscuits.

Sam

Personally we add alot more ginger , mixed spice and cinnamon.. definitely refrigerate in batches so you can work with a little at a time as it gets pretty hard to lift melted gingerbread shapes -also don't preheat oven to start as these need 30 mins minimum chilling , but good basic recipe! Especially kid friendly

Qian

My 3 years old and I made them together. It was so easy to make, and they are very tasty. We love making them!!!

Mandy

This is the best recipe that I have come across for making gingerbread. It's absolutely soft to eat. This will be my go to recipe from now on.

Leanne

Do you freeze the mix before you roll it out?

Jamie

Use this recipe one every few months because my whana≈´ are all horny as hell for ginger. It's excellent, I chill the dough in four or so sections so it stays cool. Nice and easy and you can add more ginger WHICH WE DID BECAUSE WE ARE RENEGADES

Hannah Roberts

So easy!!!!!!!

Celeste

Really tasty, but there was too much ginger.

Conner

lickckc my

Chloe

It tastes delicious

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.