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Easy Gingerbread Man Recipe for Kids

Article added 10 months ago (July 18, 2012)

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Chances are that the first biscuits you will have made at home or school were gingerbread men – and were eaten limb by limb until all that remained was a smiling gingerbread face! This is a great recipe, as they take no time at all to prepare and cook, and are low in sugar.

What you need for gingerbread:

  • 350g plain flour
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 100g softened butter
  • 2 tsp ground ginger
  • 175g soft light brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 4 tbsp golden syrup
  • Currants or icing tubes to decorate

Gingerbread recipe:

  1. Grease a large baking tray and pre heat the oven to 190c /gas mark 5
  2. Pop the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger in a mixing bowl and rub in the butter
  3. Add the sugar and syrup and stir in the egg until it makes a firm dough
  4. Roll out your dough to ½ cm and cut out your gingerbread men with a cutter – or freehand if you like!
  5. Place your men on the tray, leaving space between them to spread while cooking
  6. Bake for 15 minutes until golden brown
  7. Leave to cool on a wire rack before decorating with currants or piped icing
  8. Eat!

Your comments

  1. Thanks for sharing this recipe
    My 3 year daughter demands ginger bread man every time ,when she hear the story..
    I will bake this today onlyy

     Added August 23, 2012 at, 6:47 am by pooja

  2. I m a regular baker and love baking and bake lots of cakes of biscuits, cakes pastries and bread

    can you please tell me what is golden syrup. I have come across this name several times but couldn’t get what it means. As soon as i know what it is I shall make them.

     Added August 23, 2012 at, 4:16 pm by nina sharma

  3. I think you can get both from this recipe. When the coeioks just turn golden brown, I take them out of the oven. They should be quite soft to touch and will harden a little bit when cooled but still have a nice soft chewiness to it. If you leave them for longer in the oven, they will be crunchier. It also helps to crisp’ them if you roll out the dough quite thin.

     Added September 24, 2012 at, 2:25 am by Carolina

  4. Dear Nina, Thanks for the query. Golden Syrup is the sugar syrup made with some hint of lemons to add flavour. Happy Baking!

     Added September 26, 2012 at, 11:29 am by Surf Excel

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