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Preparations: 45 mins

Cooking Time: 10 – 30 mins

Ingredients:

• 350g plain flour, plus a sprinkle of flour for rolling
• 1 tsp of bicarbonate of soda
• 2 tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 125g/4½oz butter
• 175g/6oz light soft brown sugar
• 1 free-range egg
• 6 tbsp golden syrup
• Any icing or decorations for the finish

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.

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