re you bored and looking for something to
do? Well, how about making gingerbread biscuits? Hours of fun to be had, what
with the mixing, cutting out, baking and decorating.
Ready? Then here we go!
175g plain flour
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
70g butter
1 egg yolk
75g soft brown sugar (you can use dark brown for a
more treacly flavour)
2 tbsp golden syrup
1 tbsp black treacle
3tsp ground ginger
2tsps ground cinnamon
Zest of 1 lemon
Method
1, Rub the butter into the flour,
bicarbonate of soda, ginger and cinnamon until it’s in small breadcrumb bits.
You can do this by hand or in a food mixer. Stir in the sugar.
2, Mix in the egg yolk, golden syrup, black
treacle and the lemon zest. If the mixture is too sticky, sift in a little more
flour.
3, Turn the dough out onto a floured
surface and use your hands to knead it well.
Divide the dough into 2 and roll out 1
section to about ½ cm thick.
4, Use whatever cutters you have to make
interesting biscuit shapes.
5, Transfer it onto the baking tray or
silicone sheet and bake with biscuit machine for about 10 minutes. Whilst the
1st batch is cooking, prepare the next lot.
6, Take the biscuits out a bit before you
think they are done as they go crisp as they cool down. When you can handle
them, slide them off the tray onto a cooling rack.
7, Decorate as you like! I like to use
ready mixed, pre-colored royal icing in tubes to decorate. I know it’s lazy,
but it saves so much trouble and waste in coloring small quantities of icing
and using lots of different bowls and piping bags.
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