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Vickys Giant Gingerbread Men, GF DF EF SF NF
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Vicky@Jacks Free-From CookbookVickys Giant Gingerbread Men, GF DF EF SF NF
It's hard every holiday to find stocking fillers and treats for children with multiple allergies. I usually make gingerbread shapes and stained glass window cookies for hanging on the Christmas tree but I thought I'd do something extra special with my cookies this year. Can't wait to see the kids faces when they find their giant Gingys in their Stockings!!
Ingredient
Food ration :
1 servingCooking time :
1 mins
80 grams
soft brown sugar
100 grams
sunflower spread / softened butter
60 grams
golden syrup
225 grams
plain / gluten free flour blend
1 1/2 tsp
ground ginger
1 tsp
ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp
ground nutmeg or mixed spice
1/2 tsp
baking powder
Cooking instructions
* Step 1
Use my size guide picture below to draw a gingerbread man shape on a piece of parchment paper. Cut it out and set aside........
* Step 2
I made a centre line 12.5 inches tall and divided it into 4 sections. The head section is 3.5 inches long and the other 3 are all 3 inches. I made the hands tip to tip 9 inches apart so from the centre line to the end of each hand is 4.5 inches. I used a coffee mug as a guide to draw the hands and feet circles and eyeballed the rest. You could perhaps print my pic and blow it up to trace it
* Step 3
Cream together the butter and sugar, good exercise for the kids lol
* Step 4
Mix in the golden syrup (you can use 40g corn syrup plus 20g treacle if you can't get or don't have time to make golden syrup but the flavour will be a lot flatter so you'll need to add extra spice to compensate)
* Step 5
Mix the xanthan gum and baking powder into the flour then add the flour and spices to the creamed mixture
* Step 6
Form a soft dough. If using a gluten free flour blend you may need extra flour, just add more accordingly. You may also like to add a half tsp vanilla extract
* Step 7
Knead it smooth then put the dough on top of a sheet of parchment paper and start to pat it out into an oval or rectangular shape
* Step 8
Place another sheet of parchment paper on top then roll out so it's 1cm thick. It should be a little bit bigger than the 12.5"x 9" gingerbread man template
* Step 9
Slide the parchment paper and dough onto a baking sheet and chill flat in the fridge for 30 minutes
* Step 10
Meanwhile, preheat the oven to gas 5 / 190C / 375°F
* Step 11
Slide the dough with parchment still underneath off of the baking sheet and put on top of a cutting board. Take the top layer of parchment paper off. Put the template you cut out over the chilled dough. Cut around it with a sharp knife, removing the excess. Set that aside for later, you can re-roll it and cut smaller cookies from it, just bake for 6 minutes at the same temperature or freeze it for another day
* Step 12
Move the gingerbread man back to the baking sheet using the parchment underneath to lift it and line the sheet at the same time
* Step 13
Bake for 15 minutes then let cool completely on the baking sheet
* Step 14
When cooled, decorate as you like with piped icing, sweets, raisins, chocolate chips etc
* Step 15
To give as a gift, cut another template out of card to use as a backing board so the cookie can be supported and carried easily and place in a large cellophane bag tied with a festive bow
* Step 16
This recipe makes 1 giant gingerbread man with enough dough left over for 2 normal sized ones
* Step 17
You can make a big reindeer or snowman like these in the recipe linked below that I did last year, with a small amendment to the template - leave off the santa hat lol
* Step 18
...and this recipe link includes directions for the stained glass cookies I mentioned in my review
Note: if there is a photo you can click to enlarge it
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