Ingredients
125g butter
softened
½ cup brown sugar
packed
½ cup golden syrup
1 egg yolk
2 egg whites
2½ cups plain flour
1 tbsp powdered ginger
1 tsp mixed spice
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 cups icing sugar
sifted
150g smarties or chocolate buttons
to decorate
a few lemon juice
for icing
Allergy Advice
Contains Dairy
Contains Eggs
Contains Gluten
Contains Soy
Equipment
- 1 electric beater
- 1 stand mixer
- 1 food processor
- 1 baking paper
- 1 rolling pin
- 1 baking trays
- 1 spatula
- 1 cooling rack
- 1 piping bag
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Cream butter and brown sugar together using an electric beater, stand mixer or food processor.
- Add egg yolk and golden syrup and mix until combined.
- Add flour, ginger, mixed spice and bicarb soda and combine. It might look a bit crumbly, but don’t worry – it works!
- Place onto a piece of baking paper and then cover with another piece of baking paper – using a rolling pin, roll out the dough and cut out with desired shapes (kids can help here) re-roll as needed, but keep using the baking paper.
- Move the cut shapes over to greased baking trays with a spatula/egg flip and bake for 8-10 minutes.
- Once baked, let cool for 10 minutes on the tray and then transfer to cooling rack.
- To make the icing, beat the 2 egg whites until they are stiff peaks, add the sifted icing sugar and combine with a few drops of lemon juice. Place into a piping bag and decorate the gingerbread men with the icing and the smarties.
Notes
Tip
With any leftover dough, you can let the kids go for their life – we had a ‘cow’ ‘butterfly’ and an ‘Olivia’.
