19/12/2012

GINGERBREAD MEN RECIPE


GINGERBREAD MEN RECIPE



INGREDIENTS:

350 g of plain flour
175 g of brown sugar
100 g of butter
1 egg
4 tablespoons of golden syrup
1 tablespoon of bicarbonate
1 ½ teaspoons of ground ginger

1.       Put the flour, the butter, the ginger and the bicarbonate in a bowl. Mix all together and add sugar, syrup and egg until it forms a firm pastry mix.
2.       Pre-heat the oven to 180 ºC.  With the rolling pin, roll out the pastry to 5 mm thick.  Cut out the shapes with the pastry cutter.
3.       Put the pastry on a baking tray and put it in the oven.  Remove after 10 or 15 minutes.
4.       Decorate them with ICING SUGAR (1 cup of powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon of water or milk and artificial colors). 

MERRY CHRISTMAS