Find everything you need to know with my Christmas post on How to make Gingerbread Decorations. Perfect as gifts and for hanging up in the tree.
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 20 minutesmins
Cook Time 10 minutesmins
Decorating Time 30 minutesmins
Course Bakes
Cuisine American, English
Servings 20decorations
Calories 100kcal
Ingredients
60gunsalted butter
50gdark muscovado sugar
3tbspgolden syrup
160gplain flour / all purpose flour
½tspbicarbonate of soda
½tspcinnamon
½tspmixed spice
1.5tspof ground ginger
sugar paste for the decorations
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 180°C,
Prepare a baking tray with greaseproof paper or use a non stick tray.
Sieve the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger & spices into a bowl and stir the melted ingredients into the dry ingredients to make a stiff dough.
Melt the butter, sugar and syrup in a medium saucepan, stirring so all the ingredients have combined.
Remove from the heat and pour into the dried ingredients.
If the dough is really crumby add a few drops of water to hold the mixture together.
Roll out the dough – make sure your have floured the work top as it can stick.
Cut out the shapes you want to hang in this case the circles and place them on a tray. When they are on a tray use a straw to cut the circles (to hold the ribbon to hang the gingerbread up witthrough the gingerbread.
Bake for 8-10 minutes until light golden brown.
Once cool it’s time to decorate them.
To decorate I simply rolled out the sugar paste and cut snowflakes out and used vodka (you can use edible glue too of coursto fix the snowflakes to the gingerbread. It worked very well and they were really stuck on within about 20 mins (the time it took to clean up and ready to hang up.
Nutrition
Calories: 100kcal
Please note that the nutrition information provided above is approximate and meant as a guideline only.
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