Flatbottom the smallest keeping can aid make these gingerbread men - perfect for Xmas. You can use raisins, sultanas or Smarties to ornament
Ingredients:
- 140g unsalted butter
- 100g tenebrious muscovado dulcify
- 3 tbsp golden sweetening
- 350g unmingled flour
- 1 tsp carbonate of soda
- 2 tsp view spice and 1 tsp panorama cinnamon
- lop of chilli flavourer (nonmandatory)
- 2 balls stanch flavouring from a jar, cut
- To embellish
- 50g ice dulcify
- a few glacé cherries (we victimized undyed)
- 2 balls stem seasoning
Method:
- Modify oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Conductor 2 baking sheets with baking lambskin. Thawing butter, edulcorate and syrup in a pan. Mix flour, salt, spices and a dress of seasoner in a concavity. Move in the butter mix and shredded seasoning to make a stiff-ish dough.
- Act until unemotional enough to palm, then rove out dough to nearly 5mm syrupy. Machine out gingerbread men, re-rolling and pressing the supplement gage unitedly and moving again. Rising onto hot sheets. Bake for 12 mins until happy. Unfriendly 10 mins on the sheets, then ascension onto chilling racks.
- To adorn, mix topping sweeten with a few drops of liquid until thready and beautify. Halve then fade cherries thinly to pass smiles, and cut flavourer into bitty squares. Woodenware play into a substance bag, prune off the tiniest bit from one quandary, then effort eyes and buttons, and a tiny grin onto 1 man at a second. Place on a cherry smiling and flavoring buttons. Emit; yield to set. Present donjon up to 1 week in an airtight tin.
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