Here is one of my favourite british recipe, the Gingerbread men....they´re so yummy and tasty and it´s a wonderful recipe for cooking in Christmas time. I hope you like it!
Ingredients
300 g plain flour.
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda.
2 teaspoons ground ginger.
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon.
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg.
125 g unsalted butter.
100 g soft light brown sugar.
3 tablespoons golden syrup or honey.
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC/gas 4 and line 2 baking sheets with baking paper. In a large bowl combine the flour, bicarbonate of soda and the spices.
- Melt the butter, sugar and golden syrup in a pan over a low heat and stir until the sugar dissolves, then add it to the dry ingredients. Stir in until it forms a stiff dough, then cut it in half.
- Transfer the paper from the baking sheets to a work surface and place a portion of the dough on each. Roll out to 5mm thick, then cut out directly on the paper, leaving a 2cm gap between each. Save the cuttings to make more people, or round ginger biscuits.
- Carefully lift the papers back onto the baking sheets and bake the gingerbread in the oven for about 12 minutes, or until lightly golden.
- Leave to cool on the sheet for a few minutes – if you want to hang them as decorations, now is the time to pierce a hole through the top of each with a skewer – then move to a wire rack.
- Once cool, ice the gingerbread men and decorate with pencils, sweets and edible glitter.
For the decration I`ve used this, it´s very easy to find in supermarkets and easy to use.
...and here are the gingerbrad men or just turn it around,and you can make a lovely deer!
By Marta Pardo.
