Hungry? How About Gingerbread Men?

I made some rather yummy gingerbread men last week. Dad bought me a lovely pink cutter from John Lewis when he came to visit so I thought I'd put it to good use with the recipe I found on the side of the demerara sugar packet (below).

Crunchy Gingerbread Men

Ingredients:

350g plain flour

1 tsp (5 ml) bicorbonate of soda

2 tsp ground ginger

100g butter, softened

175g demerara sugar

4 tsp (60 ml) golden syrup

1 egg

 

Method:

1. Sift flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger into a bowl

2. Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs

3. Stir in sugar, then beat in the syrup and the egg

4. Kneed until smooth

5. Halve the mixture and roll out each half on a lightly floured surface to 5 mm thickness

6. Stamp out the figures or shapes; re-rolling the trimmings as necessary

7. Place well apart on greased baking sheets

8. Bake in the oven on 190C (Gas Mark 5) for about 12 minutes, cool slightly

9. Then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely

10. Enjoy!!