Christmas Gingerbread

This has to be my favorite time of year when it comes to the garden but also to kitchen as it is a time of making and baking! As I prepared myself well for my Christmas cheese platter by making plenty of cheese well in advance I had the pleasure of just plain and simple home baking. Filling the tins and making treats for family and friends. My favorite is always gingerbread and you can do so many things with it and it is a treat that everyone likes. My children just love it and love to decorate gingerbread men knowing that they will be eating them!

This recipe makes a lot of gingerbread so you can halve it if you like!

Perfectly delicious Gingerbread Recipe:

200g Butter
120g Soft Brown Sugar (Firmly Packed)
280g Golden Syrup
720g Plain Flour
3 tsp Ground Ginger
3 tsp Ground Cinnamin
3 tsp Ground Cassia
1 tsp Ground Cloves
3 tsp Baking Soda
2 Eggs (Beaten)
1.5 tsp Vanilla Extract (Essence)

Royal Icing:

2 Egg whites
250g Icing Sugar (more or less for firmness, etc)
Food Colouring, cachous and decorations as required

• Preheat your oven to 180 degrees Celcius
• Melt Butter, Golden Syrup and sugar in a pot and let it cool for 5 mins
• Mix dry ingredients together and add melted mixture, beaten egg and extract. Mix well.
• Knead the dough and roll to about a 5mm thickness between two baking sheets (waxed paper or teflon sheets work well and saves adding more flour!)
• Cut out your shapes and place on your oven trays (using baking paper or teflon sheets is the best)
• Bake for around 10-15 mins depending on how light or dark you like them.
• Decorate with Royal Icing 

Ready to eat!

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