Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, 🍪gingerbread men🍪. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
🍪Gingerbread Men🍪 is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. 🍪Gingerbread Men🍪 is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 🍪gingerbread men🍪 using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make 🍪Gingerbread Men🍪:
- Take (12 oz, 2½ cups) plain flour
- Make ready (4 oz, ½ cup) butter
- Make ready (4½ fl oz, ½ cup) Golden Syrup or light molasses
- Make ready (3 oz, ½ cup) sugar
- Make ready egg
- Make ready ground ginger powder
- Prepare cinnamon
- Get baking soda
- Get ground cloves
- Make ready salt
- Prepare (5 oz, 1 cup) of icing or Confectioner’s sugar
- Prepare About 1 tbsp of milk or water
Instructions to make 🍪Gingerbread Men🍪:
- Beat together the butter and sugar until fluffy. - Beat in the egg and Golden Syrup until the mixture is smooth. - - Sift in the remainder of the ingredients and beat/mix to form a smooth dough.
- Wrap the dough in plastic or place in a plastic bag. Let the dough chill in the ‘fridge for about an hour to firm up. - On a floured surface, roll out the dough to about ¼” (6mm) thick. - - Use a gingerbread man cutter to cut out the shapes. - Place a piece of baking paper on a baking tray and arrange the shapes ready for baking. Leave at least ½” (1cm) between the shapes.
- Bake at 180°C (350°F) for 10 minutes. - Place on a wire rack to cool before decorating. - Prepare the frosting: Sift the icing sugar into a bowl and gradually mix in the milk until you achieve a firm paste. - Use a piping bag or syringe to decorate the shapes.
- #Tips: - - The initial dough should be quite firm – if it is too soft it will spread while cooking. If you find your dough is very soft simply sift in a tbsp or two of extra flour until you achieve the desired consistency. - - While gingerbread men are traditional, you can make other shapes too depending upon what cookie-cutter shapes you have.
- If you want to use different colours in decorating the shapes, simply take a portion of the frosting and mix in a drop or two of food colouring. You can also decorate with Smarties for buttons.
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