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Gingerbread Men
Recipe by:
Heather
Great biscuits for a children's party. They can decorate them any way they like.
Ready in 55 mins
Saved by 161 cook(s)
Ingredients
Serves: 30
- 350g (12 oz) treacle
- 225g (8 oz) dark brown soft sugar
- 150ml (5 fl oz) cold water
- 50g (2 oz) butter
- 900g (2 lb) plain flour
- 1 dessertspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 dessertspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
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Preparation method
Prep: 45 mins | Cook: 10 mins1.
Preheat the oven to 180 C / Gas mark 4. Lightly grease baking tray.
2.
Mix together the treacle, brown sugar, water and butter.
3.
Sift together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and spices. Add to sugar mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours.
4.
Roll dough .5cm (1/4 in) thick on a floured surface. Cut with floured gingerbread man pastry cutter. Place about 5cm (2 in) apart on baking tray. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Cool and decorate with icing of your choice.
Tip:
After icing the men, you and the children can decorate them using Smarties for eyes and hundreds & thousands for the hair.
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Watch how!Watch our How to make gingerbread men video to see how to make perfect gingerbread biscuits every time!
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Last updated:
14 Mar 2013
Reviews & comments
Easy
It's tough to mix the ingredients together in the first step - I'd recommend creaming the butter and sugar first, then adding the treacle and water (perhaps in stages). Other than that, great recipe! Good and soft like gingerbread men should be.
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18 Jun 2012
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Moderately easy
Lovely recipe. I decorated them with lemon icing.
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21 Dec 2010
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Easy
first time I made it I did it exatly as recipe describes and they were good, but didn't really taste very gingery, so the second time I doubled both the ginger and the cinnamon amounts and they were perfect!
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16 Dec 2009
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Altered ingredient amounts.
doubled up on ginger and cinnamon
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16 Dec 2009
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Moderately easy
This was the first thing i ever tried to make, Frankly they came out great, tasted wonderful and even friends are asking for them!!
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18 Dec 2008
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Easy
This is a very tasty recipe. I had a hard time w/ the dough at first, a little dry, I just wet my hands with a little water while kneeding, until the dough became rollable, then it was great. Careful not too overbake, or they will become rock hard! But when they are baked just right, these where very very tasy!
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21 Jul 2008
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SPORTBILLY22
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There is something wrong with this recipe! No eggs? I'm not certain, but it tasted so bad, I binned the entire batter, after only baking 1 tray!
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21 Jul 2008
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Tuula
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Followed this recipie to the letter and my husband says they are the most incredible gingerbread cookies he's ever had.
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21 Jul 2008
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Detective Abe, RN
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I have received rave reviews from other gingerbread fans this Christmas
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21 Jul 2008
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FSKORN
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This is a long-time favourite in my family. we glaze it with an icing sugar and lemon juice/zest glaze.
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21 Jul 2008
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