Make adorning these lovely gingerbread males even simpler (and fewer messy!) with tubes of shop-bought icing and sweets. Get the youngsters concerned too

• Preparation and cooking time
  • Prep:45 minutes
  • Prepare dinner:12 minutes – 15 minutes
  • Plus chilling, cooling and a minimum of 1 hr drying
• Straightforward
• Serves 15 – 20

• Vegetarian

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Elements

• 175g darkish muscovado sugar
• 85g golden syrup
• 100g butter
• 350g plain flour, plus further for dusting
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 tbsp floor ginger
• 1 tsp floor cinnamon
• 1 egg, overwhelmed

To embellish

• ready-made writing icing
• chocolate buttons or small sweets (non-compulsory)

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Technique

• STEP 1

  Soften the sugar, golden syrup and butter in a saucepan, then bubble for 1-2 minutes. Go away to chill for about 10 minutes.

• STEP 2

  Tip the flour, bicarbonate of soda and spices into a big bowl. Add the nice and cozy syrup combination and the egg, stir all the pieces collectively, then gently knead within the bowl till easy and streak-free. The dough will agency up as soon as cooled. Wrap in cling movie and chill for a minimum of 30 minutes.

• STEP 3

  Take away the dough from the fridge, depart at room temperature till softened. Warmth the oven to 200C/180C fan/gasoline 6 and line two baking trays with baking parchment.

• STEP 4

  Roll out the dough to the thickness of a £1 coin, then reduce out gingerbread individuals with a cutter. Re-roll the surplus dough and preserve reducing till it’s all used up.

• STEP 5

  Raise the biscuits onto the trays and bake for 10-12 minutes, swapping the trays over midway by cooking. Go away to chill on the trays for five minutes, then switch to a wire rack to chill fully. Use the icing to brighten the biscuits as you want, and stick on chocolate or sweets for buttons. Go away to dry for 1-2 hrs. Will preserve for as much as three days in an hermetic container.