Gingerbread Men

Name: Gingerbread Men
Yield: Makes 10
Cuisine: Americas
Ingredients: 170 g (5¾ oz) soft dark brown sugar; handful of currants, to decorate; 4 tbsp golden syrup; 1 egg, beaten; 110 g (3¾ oz) butter, cubed, plus extra for the baking sheet; 340 g (3¾ oz) plain flour, plus extra to dust; 2 tsp. ground ginger; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Preparation info

Makes
10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food for Friends

By Levi Roots

Published 2010

About

You can use this recipe to make ginger biscuits as well, but there isn’t a child who can resist a gingerbread man. If you feel like it, you can go mad on the decoration, using tubes of ready-made icing to make stripy jumpers in Caribbean colours or licorice shoelaces to give your gingerbread men dreadlocks!

Ingredients

110 g (3¾ oz) butter, cubed, plus extra for the baking sheet
340 g (3¾

Americas
Caribbean
Vegetarian
Cookies

Method

Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/gas mark 5 and lightly grease a baking sheet with butter. Sift the flour, ginger and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl. Rub in the butter with your fingers until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs, then mix in the sugar and egg.