Gingerbread Man Cookies
Shiokman Recipes recipe - Western
- Prep time
- 14 min
- Cook time
- 31 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 400 g plain flour
- 1 Tbsp ground ginger
- 1.5 tsp cinnamon powder
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp salt
- 130 g butter
- 100 g brown sugar
- 1.5 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg yolk
- 125 g golden syrup
- 1 cup of icing sugar
- 3 tsp milk
- 1.5 tsp golden syrup
Instructions
- 1
Add baking soda to plain flour
- 2
Add ground ginger and cinnamon powder
- 3
Add ground nutmeg and salt
- 4
Mix all the dry ingredients well
- 5
Add butter to brown sugar and mix until light and creamy
- 6
Add vanilla extract and egg yolk to mixture
- 7
Add golden syrup to batter and mix well
- 8
Add the flour mixture a little at a time
- 9
Mix until all come together
- 10
Store dough in plastic bags and
- 11
keep in the fridge for at least 1 hour
- 12
Remove chilled dough from fridge and
- 13
place in between 2 baking papers
- 14
Roll dough flat about 1/2 cm thick
- 15
Cut dough with a ginger bread man cutter
- 16
Arrange cut dough on a baking tray
- 17
Bake at 180C until edges turn slightly brown (10 – 15 mins)
- 18
Sieve 1 cup of icing sugar into a bowl
- 19
Add milk and golden syrup
- 20
Stir and mix well
- 21
Scoop some icing mixture into a piping bag
- 22
Pipe icing over gingerbread man for decoration