Gingerbread Men
"My friend is a ginger and loves the attention from it. For her birthday, I made her a gingerbread house with gingerbread men and horses (she loves horses also). The only problem I had was I over-decorated the roof so the house collapsed!!! lol But this is a great recipe for gingerbread men."
photo by Perfect Pixie
- Ready In:
- 28mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
15
ingredients
- 125 g butter
- 118.29 ml brown sugar
- 118.29 ml golden syrup
- 1 egg yolk
- 591.47 ml plain flour
- 14.79 ml ground ginger
- 4.92 ml bicarbonate of soda
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Royal Icing
- 1 egg white
- 354.88 ml icing sugar
- food coloring
directions
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat in golden syrup and egg yolk.
- Stir in sifted dry ingredients in 2 batches.
- Press mixture into a ball, knead on lightly floured surface until smooth, cover and put in fridge for 30 minutes.
- Roll dough between 2 pieces of greaseproof paper until 4mm thickness.
- Cut shapes you desire and place on lightly greased oven trays 3cm apart (they spread when cooking).
- Bake in moderately hot oven about 8 minutes or until lightly browned and firm, cool on trays.
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Royal icing:
- Whisk egg white with a fork, gradually whisk in sifted icing sugar, about 1 tbsp at a time.
- Colour as desired and decorate.
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Reviews
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This was the gingerbread recipe I was looking for. I put some cinnamon and allspice in it, cos I like them, but the texture was exactly right - roll it thin and it's crispy, roll it thick and it's fudgy. Perfect. -
This was so easy and so yummy! I can't wait to make it again. The kids loved it, and even the hubby (who's not a big ginger fan) loved it. Yum Yum!!
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I lived in new zealand for 8 years of my life, now england for the past 8 years. I go to boarding school on the east coast of england. I have friends from all over the world, my best friend is canadian and also lived in france, so her mum and her for that fact, are mean chefs, boy do i like going to her house.
I recently found out I am intollerant to wheat so have found it difficult to give up such easy foods to find and now have to search harder. I also have 2 leaks in my heart, one on a valve going in and one on a valve going out. A top carteoligist from London told me as long as I don't get pregnant for a while (I should hope not, I'm only 15) or eat fatty foods, my heart would do allright. He said he didn't want to operate on me yet, beacause there is a operation coming in the next 10 years which is lazer, so he wants me to wait, but he said I was fit and healthy and had no need to worry, yet.......
when i was younger i dreamed of being a choreographer or a marine biolagist, then i wanted to work for vouge magazine, then get married and move to barbados and raise a family where the only thing that passes anyones lips will be home grown or hand made, a bit ambitious i know, hehe. But now my dream is to be a laywer and help others that really need it, and hopefully move back to my roots and bring up a family there
For lent i have given up refined sugars and it is so hard and i am only 3 days into it, i was starving at school, opened my tuk box only to find marshmallows and smarties and a box of cereal, i think cereal is about to become my best friend over the next 6 weeks. LOL
EDITED 30TH AUGUST; Last night at 3:30am, my best friend lost her battle to cancer and it has made me realise how important it is to live life to the full and take every opportunity thrown at us. She was a special girl and only 15 - wherever she is now though, she is out of her suffering. I have no doubt that she went straight to heaven. Lord rest your soul.
i also have a lot of favourite sayings, here are some of them
"shoot for the moon, even if you don't make it, you'll land amoung the stars"
"I'm on a seafood diet, see food and eat it"
"smiling is infectious, you catch it like the flu, when someone smiled at me today, i started smiling too, i passed around the corner and someone saw me grin, when he smiled i realised, i'd passed it on to him. I thought about that smile, then i realised it's worth, a single smile just like mine could pass around the earth. So if you feel a smile begin, don't leave undetected. Lets start an epedemic quick, and get the world infected!!!"
