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Vickys Gingerbread Men -Christmas & Halloween GF DF EF SF NF
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Vicky@Jacks Free-From CookbookVickys Gingerbread Men -Christmas & Halloween GF DF EF SF NF
Great fun to include the kids and remember, gingerbread men aren't just for christmas...lol!
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Food ration :
8 servingsCooking time :
1 hour
100 grams
soft brown sugar
240 grams
plain / gluten-free flour
1 tsp
baking powder
1 tsp
ground ginger
1/2 tsp
cinnamon
1/4 tsp
nutmeg
Cooking instructions
* Step 1
Cream the butter and sugar together until light
* Step 2
Add the syrup and mix in
* Step 3
Mix the flour, baking powder and spices together and add to the mixture. Form a dough adding a touch more syrup if required to bring it together
* Step 4
Wrap in clingfilm and refrigerate for half an hour
* Step 5
Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper/baking parchment
* Step 6
Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 5/ 190C. Flour your surface then roll out your dough so it's 1cm thick and cut out your men with a gingerbread men shaped cutter or whatever shape you want to use
* Step 7
You can get neat stamps you press on instead of decorating with icing like those pictured here
* Step 8
I have also used an upsides down snowman cutter for a skull
* Step 9
Place on baking tray and bake for 10 - 12 minutes - they should be firm but not browned
* Step 10
Rest on tray a further 10 minutes then remove and set on a wire rack to continue cooling
* Step 11
Decorate with piped icing. Let your imagination guide you. You could stick sweets to the icing for eyes or buttons
* Step 12
For Halloween make some headless, armless or legless by cutting off a leg or whatever and decorate with red icing near the 'injury', scary faces and pipe a skeleton out of icing onto the bodies. My son loves this! We call them 'Injure-bread Men' lol
* Step 13
To make Xmas Stained Glass Cookies, follow the recipe but cut circles out of your main cookie shapes
* Step 14
Bash some boiled sweets or lollipops with a rolling pin to break them into smaller pieces and spoon into the holes in your cookies
* Step 15
Poke a hole near the top of each cookie so when its baked you can thread a ribbon through and hang on your xmas tree or in front of your window
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