Gingerbread Biscuits

Name: Gingerbread Biscuits
Yield: Makes about 40
Ingredients: 4 tsp ground ginger; ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; 130 g salted butter, very slightly softened; 150 g light muscovado sugar; 1 egg yolk; 350 g plain flour, plus more to dust; 2 tbsp black treacle; zest of 1 orange, finely grated; 3 tbsp golden syrup

Preparation info

Makes about
40

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bake and Decorate

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

Once you have wrapped the dough in clingfilm to chill, you can store it in the refrigerator for a couple of days or freeze for up to a month so they are ready to bake at any time.

Ingredients

350 g plain flour, plus more to dust
4 tsp ground ginger
1

Cookies
Baking
Vegetarian

Method

Sift the flour, spices and bicarbonate of soda into a large bowl and add the butter, cut into small chunks. Gently rub together with your fingertips - or pulse in a food processor - until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs

Add the egg yolk, sugar, syrup, treacle and zest and mix together until you have a firm dough. If it’s too sticky, mix in a little more flour. Wrap in clingfilm a