Make some gingerbread stars to hold out of your Christmas tree. This biscuit dough is extraordinarily forgiving if overworked, so it's excellent for baking with kids

• Preparation and cooking time
  • Prep:20 minutes
  • Prepare dinner:15 minutes
  • plus 1 hr chilling
• Straightforward

• Vegetarian

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Substances

• 100g salted butter
• 3 tbsp golden syrup
• 100g darkish muscovado sugar
• ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 tbsp floor ginger
• 1 tsp floor cinnamon
• 225g plain flour
• 50g icing sugar

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Technique

• STEP 1

  Warmth the butter, syrup and sugar collectively in a small pan till melted, stirring often. Put aside to chill barely.

• STEP 2

  Combine collectively the bicarb, ginger, cinnamon and flour in a big bowl. Pour within the buttery syrup combination and stir to mix, then use your palms to carry collectively to type a dough. Add as much as 1 tbsp of milk to mix if wanted. The dough can be smooth at this level, but it surely’ll agency up within the fridge.

• STEP 3

  Put the dough on a sheet of baking parchment, form right into a rectangle, and lay one other sheet of parchment on prime of it. Roll the dough out to a thickness of ½cm. Switch to a baking sheet to maintain it flat, leaving the parchment in place, then chill within the fridge for 1 hr.

• STEP 4

  Warmth the oven to 190C/170C fan/fuel 5 and line a big baking sheet with extra baking parchment. Take away the dough from the fridge and minimize out shapes utilizing a cookie cutter. We used 9cm stars, however you possibly can select any form. We additionally made some with smaller stars minimize out of the centre to string ribbon by way of and cling from a Christmas tree.

• STEP 5

  Place the shapes, unfold aside, on the lined baking sheet, and bake for 10-12 minutes. (Relying on the scale of the cutters you employ, they could want a couple of minutes roughly cooking within the oven). Go away to chill utterly on the baking sheet.

• STEP 6

  In the meantime, combine the icing sugar with 1-2 tbsp water – you need to create a consistency that’s thick and pipeable, and never too skinny or it should run. Embellish the cooled biscuits with the icing utilizing a piping bag with a skinny nozzle. Learn the way to make a piping bag.