December 12th, 2008 by Lola

William Shakespeare: “And I had but one penny in the world. Thou should’st have it to buy gingerbread.“

These won’t be anything like the ordinary ginger bread biscuits – hard! They’re so soft and Lush

Ingredients:

• 2 ½ cups Flour
• ½ cups soft butter
• ½ cup molasses
• ½ cup caster sugar
• ¼ cup water
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp ground cinnamon
• ¼ tsp fresh ground nutmeg
• ¼ tsp ground cloves
• You’ll also need; two bowls, cling film or tin foil, gingerbread men cutter and parchment-lined baking sheet.

Add icing on the top if you like or if the kids like. Add drop of food colouring too, to make the men look friendlier.

Method

1.       In a bowl, sift together all the dry ingredients except for the sugar.

2.       In another bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and frothy.

3.       Stir in the wet ingredients into the butter mixture.

4.       Fold in all the dry ingredients with the wet mixture, until a smooth dough forms.

5.       Cover the dough with cling film or tin foil and refrigerate for 3 hours.

6.       On a floured surface, roll out the dough to about 1/8 inch thickness.

7.       Place cookies onto the baking sheet.

8.       Bake for 10 minutes or until lightly browned and quite firm at the edges.

9.       Let them cool before decorating with icing sugar.

Yummy! I love Gingerbread men!!