Chocolate and Gingerbread Men and Beasts

Name: Chocolate and Gingerbread Men and Beasts
Yield: Makes about 12
Ingredients: 350 g 00 (Italian doppio zero) flour; 1 egg; ½ tsp ready-ground cardamom; 1 tsp ground ginger; 100 g golden syrup; Smarties and white icing, to decorate (optional); 140 g golden brown caster sugar; 1 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; 100 g chopped real chocolate pieces; 100 g butter

Preparation info

Makes about
12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Real Chocolate

By Chantal Coady

Published 2003

About

The whole process of making these can keep the children happy for at least an hour!

Ingredients

100 g golden syrup
1 egg
350 g 00 (Italian doppio z

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/Gas 6 and line several baking trays with greaseproof paper or silicone baking sheets.

Beat the egg into the golden syrup in a bowl. Sift the flour, then mix in the spices, bicarbonate of soda and cocoa powder. Put this into a food processor (you can al