How to Prepare Homemade 🍪Gingerbread Men🍪

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook 🍪gingerbread men🍪 using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make 🍪Gingerbread Men🍪:

1. Make ready (12 oz, 2½ cups) plain flour
2. Take (4 oz, ½ cup) butter
3. Take (4½ fl oz, ½ cup) Golden Syrup or light molasses
4. Take (3 oz, ½ cup) sugar
5. Prepare egg
6. Make ready ground ginger powder
7. Get cinnamon
8. Take baking soda
9. Take ground cloves
10. Make ready salt
11. Prepare (5 oz, 1 cup) of icing or Confectioner’s sugar
12. Make ready About 1 tbsp of milk or water

Steps to make 🍪Gingerbread Men🍪:

1. Beat together the butter and sugar until fluffy. - Beat in the egg and Golden Syrup until the mixture is smooth. - - Sift in the remainder of the ingredients and beat/mix to form a smooth dough.
2. Wrap the dough in plastic or place in a plastic bag. Let the dough chill in the ‘fridge for about an hour to firm up. - On a floured surface, roll out the dough to about ¼” (6mm) thick. - - Use a gingerbread man cutter to cut out the shapes. - Place a piece of baking paper on a baking tray and arrange the shapes ready for baking. Leave at least ½” (1cm) between the shapes.
3. Bake at 180°C (350°F) for 10 minutes. - Place on a wire rack to cool before decorating. - Prepare the frosting: Sift the icing sugar into a bowl and gradually mix in the milk until you achieve a firm paste. - Use a piping bag or syringe to decorate the shapes.
4. #Tips: - - The initial dough should be quite firm – if it is too soft it will spread while cooking. If you find your dough is very soft simply sift in a tbsp or two of extra flour until you achieve the desired consistency. - - While gingerbread men are traditional, you can make other shapes too depending upon what cookie-cutter shapes you have.
5. If you want to use different colours in decorating the shapes, simply take a portion of the frosting and mix in a drop or two of food colouring. You can also decorate with Smarties for buttons.

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