December 2017 – Page 3

24 Days of Sparkle Girl – Gingerbread Men

Preparations: 45 mins

Cooking Time: 10 – 30 mins

Ingredients:

Method:

Mix together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, ginger and cinnamon and then pour the mixture into a mixer! Add the butter and blend it until the mixture looks more like breadcrumbs, after that stir in the sugar.
Lightly beat the egg and golden syrup together, add them to the mixture and pulse until the mixture forms a clump. Tip the dough out onto clingfilm and carefully kneed it, wrap the clingfilm over the dough and leave to chill in the fridge for 15 to 20 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 180C and line two baking trays with greaseproof paper.
Roll out the dough (sprinkle flour onto the surface you are rolling on first) and carefully cut the dough into gingerbread men shapes using a gingerbread-man-shaped cutter.
Put them in the oven and bake them until lightly golden-brown. Leave them to cool for 10 minutes, then move to a wire rack or a plate to decorate. When cooled decorate with the writing icing and cake decorations.

Back tomorrow,

Sparkle Girl!

Quite a short post today but very true:

1- Nativity

2- Arthur Christmas

3- The Snowman

4- Nativity 2

5- Elf

6- The Polar Express

7- The Snowman and the Dog

8- The Miracle on 34th Street

9- White Christmas

10- Home Alone

Sparkle Girl,

New post tomorrow!

How to make these easy cute Christmas trees!

Ingredients;

Equipment:

Method:

Heat a little bit of butter on low heat.
Stir in the marshmallows until they look like this:
Turn the heat off and stir gently
Add in the rice krispies and mix them together until well coated
Pour the green dye into the rice krispies and marshmallows (depending on how green you want them you might need to use more green dye.)
Using baking paper make small cones and sellotape the cones shut
Spoon in the mixture and add some smarties (for baubles.)
Leave them to cool in the fridge overnight
Carefully peel the paper away to reveal your trees!