Gingerbread men...

So I was on early morning Tilly duty this Sunday, and being confined to the kitchen so as not to wake the rest of the household, I decided Tilly and I should do some more baking. ( I since discovered last week was National Baking Week which explains my recent splurge !)....

I decided to make some gingerbread men with Tilly, partly as I had all the ingredients already and also because I had a cute cutter that I had got for my birthday last year and not yet used...the recipe was simple :

12oz plain flour
1 level tsp bic. of soda
2 level tsp ground ginger
4 oz butter
6oz light soft brown sugar
4 level tbsp golden syrup
1 egg, beaten

Sift the flour, bic. of soda and ginger into a bowl. Rub the butter into the flour until the mixture looks like fine crumbs. Stir in the sugar. Beat the syrup into the egg and stir into the bowl.
Mix to form a dough and knead until smooth.
Divide into two and roll out on lightly floured surface to about 5mm thick. Using a cutter, cut out figures and place on baking sheet.
Bake in oven at 190 for 12-15 mins, until golden.

Tilly loved helping to roll out the dough and press down on the cutter to reveal the cute gingerbread men.....

Mmmmmm...delicious, and all the late risers in the house thought so too !