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Tasty Gingerbread men

Method

Combine your dry ingredients - the flour, ginger and bicarbonate of soda - in a large mixing bowl and put to one side. Put the butter, sugar and syrup in a pan and melt over a gentle heat. Keep stirring until all of the sugar has melted with the syrup and butter, and you have a smooth dark liquid in the bottom of the pan. Avoid letting it either boil or burn.

Pour this into the dry ingredients and use a wooden spoon to mix them together until they form a solid mass. You should now have a dark brown ball of pastry ready for cutting, with no evidence of any of the dry ingredients in it. If you can see white flecks of flour, then it needs more thorough mixing.

Sprinkle your worktop with a little flour and place the ball on it for rolling. Roll this until it is around 5mm thick, cut out your shapes and transfer them to a greased baking tray. Place in an oven pre-heated to 170 °C and bake for 10 minutes.

Once baked, remove them from the trays and allow to cool, then enjoy your tasty gingerbread!

Here's some a client made for us!