At the moment I'm just loving using gingerbread men (and candy cane) embellishments in my crafting. They're such a fun and envoke memories of making gingerbread men and houses with my mum when I was younger.
So I decided to give you a recipe for making your own gingerbread men, I found it on BBC food and it is just a great recipe.
Ingredients
200g/7oz self raising flour
10g/2 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
55g/2oz butter
55g/2oz dark brown sugar
2 tbsp black treacle
1 tbsp golden syrup1
finely grated orange zest
To decoratesweetened dried cranberries
Method
1. Heat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
2. Lightly grease 2 baking sheets with butter. Sift the flour, ginger, cinnamon into a mixing bowl.
3. In a heavy-based saucepan, melt the butter, sugar, black treacle and golden syrup over a low heat. Do not allow to boil. Remove from the heat and stir in the orange rind.
4. Pour the butter mixture into the flour and mix thoroughly to form a soft dough. Roll out the dough to approximately 4mm/¼ inch thick and cut 10-12 large people shapes or 25 small shapes, re-rolling the dough when necessary.
5. Using a palette knife carefully lift the gingerbread people onto the baking tray and decorate with the dried cranberries. Cook for 6-10 minutes until just set and beginning to brown.
Try it yourself.
