Baking & Desserts
The Best Gingerbread
Prep 15 mins. /Cook 30 mins.
serves 20
Easy
The Best Gingerbread
Method
- Pre heat oven to 180°C / 160°C fan forced. Line baking trays with baking paper.
- Melt butter, brown sugar and golden syrup together in a saucepan, stirring until smooth. Cool slightly.
- Whisk egg and butter mixture in a large bowl. Sift flour, spices and bicarbonate of soda over the butter mixture and mix until combined into a smooth dough. Flatten into a disc shape, cover with cling wrap and refrigerate for 30 - 40 minutes or until just firm.
- Roll out the dough on a floured surface to ½ cm thickness. Cut into shapes using chosen cookie cutters and use a lifter to transfer onto lightly buttered trays. Bake for 8 - 10 minutes or until cooked and lightly browned. Cool for 5 minutes on trays before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Once gingerbread has cooled, beat egg white until foamy then gradually beat in icing sugar until piping consistency. Spoon into a piping bag. Decorate gingerbread with icing, gold & red dragees.
More Tips
- Experiment with different shaped cookie cutters. Gingerbread people and stars are great, but maybe you have a llama shaped cookie cutter that would be fun to try.
- Mix in a drop of food colouring when making the icing to create fun colours to decorate with.
IN THIS RECIPE
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Forgotten to soften the butter?
Grate butter coarsely, spread onto baking paper and stand for 10 minutes before using. Alternatively chop into 2cm cubes, microwave on 30% power in 10 second bursts until just softened.