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Spicy gingerbread men
Adorable and edible spicy gingerbread men. This is the only recipe we have ever used.
Ingredients
Serves: 30
- 100g butter
- 100g caster sugar
- 125ml treacle
- 1 egg yolk
- 250g sifted plain flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Method
Prep:20min ›
Cook:10min ›
Ready in:30min
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Stir in treacle and egg yolk. Combine the flour, salt, baking powder, bicarb, cinnamon, cloves, ginger and nutmeg; blend into the treacle mixture until smooth. Cover, and chill for at least one hour.
- Preheat the oven to 180 C / Gas mark 4. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out to ½cm thickness. Cut into desired shapes with biscuit cutters. Place biscuits 5cm apart on ungreased baking trays.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, until firm. Remove from baking trays to cool on wire racks. Ice or decorate when cool.
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Altered ingredient amounts. Doubled the ginger! - Perfect! - 04 Dec 2010
Altered ingredient amounts. I made normal round biscuits rather then the 'men', and gave them a sprinkle of sugar to finish, YUMMY!! - 18 Nov 2009
Really delicious biscuits, will bake a second batch tomorrow! Dough is a bit challenging though, would advise to leave in the fridge a bit longer, and definitely roll to .5 cm like stated in the recipe. - 14 Nov 2010