Gingerbread

Gingerbread

Gingerbread dough is easy to make yourself, and much better than pre-made! Plan baking the gingerbread in advance as the dough needs a day to rest before baking.

https://www.arlafoods.co.uk/recipes/gingerbread/

Instructions

Step 1

Place butter, syrup and sugar in a saucepan. Heat until everything has melted.

Step 2

Pour the mixture into a mixing bowl, add the cream and spices, then stir.

Step 3

Stir the bicarbonate and flour in the mixing bowl. Work the dough together, it will be quite loose. Let it rest in the fridge for about a day and bring it out 1 hour before baking.

Step 4

Heat the oven to 175 °C.

Step 5

Roll out the dough thinly between 2 sheets of baking paper. Put the baking paper on a baking tray and cut out the gingerbread cookies. Pull away excess dough and roll out again.

Step 6

Bake in the middle of the oven for about 7 minutes and allow to cool on a plate.

Enjoy!

Ingredients

Butter	200 g
Dark syrup	150 ml
Caster sugar	240 g
Whipped cream	150 ml
Ground ginger	1 tbsp
Ground cinnamon	1 tbsp
Ground cloves	½ tbsp
Ground cardamom	½ tbsp
Baking soda	1 tbsp
Wheat flour	600 g