Gingerbread Man

Very excited over this bake~Gingerbread man. I wanted to make it for give away on saturday morning. I came home exhausted and late on Friday night, so off to bed. I dragged myself up at 4.30am and did my earliest bake. I managed to make 36 gingerbread man.

Here's the recipe :-

Ingredients
65g butter
80g light brown sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg
180g golden syrup
445g plain flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp mixed spice
1/4 tsp gound cinnamon
3/4 tsp gound ginger
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 tbsp UHT Milk(milk wash)

Methods

1. Sift flour, baking soda & spices together and set aside
2. In a large bowl, cream together butter, sugar, salt together until light & fluffy
3. Beat in the egg slowly into the cream mixture
4. Fold in the flour & golden syrup alternately until well combine.
5. Add in vanilla essence and mix well
6. Rest dough in the fridge for 15 mins
7. Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface
8. Use a cookies cutter and cut out the dough
9. Place it on a greased tray and brush the dough with UHT milk before bake @ 180c for 10-12 mins
10. Decorate it with icing sugar & chocolate after the cookies cool off

These are the naked gingerbread man & woman

Lemon Icing

• 1 cup icing sugar
• 2-3 tbsp lemon juiceIn a small bowl combine icing sugar & lemon. Add enough lemon juice to make the icing thick & pourable but not runny. You can always add a bit of extra sugar to thick it if you add too much and stir until very smooth. I didn't have very time trying to pipe out the icing, instead i used my hand o make. It's like doing gum paste, kinda of fun though.

Finally all the gingerbread are packed and ready to give away. Out of the house at 9.20am

I was very happy about this bake as many kids like it cos the ginger & cinnamon smell is not strong. In fact their parents were surprised that their kiddos like my gingerbread when most time they won't eat. :p