Christmas Gingerbread
I wanted to show that decorating gingerbread men can become a Christmas tradition. Decorating with the Choco Writers made life so much easier. Baking can be as hard as you let it be. Never taken a shortcut before?
Again, really easy to roll out.
Cutting into any shapes, they all look amazing.
All ready to decorate.
Christmas always brings out my creative side.
Not every gingerbread has to be perfect. We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.
- 15 Cookies
- 40 minutes
- 30 minutes
Ingredients
Gingerbread Man
- 150g (5.3oz) of butter (add salt if unsalted)
- 150g (5.3oz) of brown sugar
- 150g (5.3oz) of treacle
- 400g (14.1oz) of plain flour
- 1 tsp of bread soda
- 340g (12oz) of brown sugar
- 1 tbs of vanilla extract
- 1 beaten eggs
- 1 tbsp of ginger
- 1 tbsp of cloves
- 1 tsp of allspice
- 1 tsp of cinnamon
Decoration
- 80g of white Choco Writers
- 80g of milk Choco Writers
Directions
Gingerbread Man
- Heat the oven to 160°C (320°F). Grease and line a baking tray, or line the baking tray with parchment paper.
- In a mixing bowl, cream the sugar, butter and treacle.
- Add in the egg.
- Add in the vanilla extract.
- Add in the flour gradually.
- Add in the bread soda. (It’s ok to not have this in) (Not needed if using self-raising flour is also good to use)
- Add in the ginger, cloves, allspice, and cinnamon.
- Divide the dough into 2. Flatten them both into disks and put them in the fridge.
- After an hour you can take one of the disks our.
- On a flat surface, sprinkly out some flour and roll out the dough to the desired shapes.
- When you have them on the baking try then it’s time to bake.
Bake
- Bake for 8-12 mins at 160°C (320°F).
- Let it cool for 10-20 mins and place it on a wire rack to cool more.
Decoration
- For decorating the gingerbread, I let my creative side out and had fun with it.
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