I love making gingerbread men with children, it is so much fun decorating them afterwards. I use honey instead of golden syrup or treacle, it adds a different slant to the taste and is healthier.
Ingredients;
125g cold butter diced
350g plain flour
1 tsp bicarb of soda
2 tsp ground ginger
175g light soft brown sugar
4 tbsp honey
1 medium egg beaten
icing, food colouring, smarties, decorative bits
Method;
- Lightly grease three baking sheets with butter.
- Sift the flour, bicarb of soda and ginger into a mixing bowl. Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
- Stir in the sugar.
- Beat the honey with the egg, then stir into the flour mixture to make a dough. Knead until smooth, divide in half and wrap in cling film. Chill for 30 mins.
- Preheat the oven to 190 (170 fan oven) mark 5. Turn out the dough onto a lightly floured work surface and cut in half.
- Roll out each half until about 5mm (1/4 inch) thick.
- Using a gingerbread man cutter cut out shapes and re-roll and repeat until all the dough is used.
- Place the gingerbread men on the prepared baking sheets.
- Bake for 12-15 mins until golden brown. Leave to cool slightly then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
- When the gingerbread has cooled completely you are ready to decorate. I make up a couple of bowls of coloured icing, a couple of bowls of sweets and let my children make up their own designs.
*Store in an airtight container, they will keep up to a week.
Mmm yummy 🙂 Love honey. Now to build the house like Kirsty built, right?!!! x
Oh well of course I whipped one of those up this morning before the kids got up, ahem.
I needed this this morning. I was making gingerbread reindeer. Oh well, next time
A gingerbread reindeer, that is more impressive than my wonky gingerbread men.
M mmm We all love gingerbread in the house and using honey is a great idea! X
Thanks Jenny, enjoy.
Brilliant recipe, we didn’t have golden syrup and wanted to make gingerbread men and these have come out really well, so thank you
Great, thanks for letting me know.
great recipe children at school loved them Thank you
Thanks Ella
We made these this morning on a rainy Sunday morning finding honey could be an alternative to golden syrup saved me a trip to the shop!!
Have been reading “The Gingerbread Man” a lot lately so the kids are deelighted
Is the mixture quite moist
HI Ella,
In Turkey where I live we cannot get Golden Syrup so I went looking for an alternative….
Your recipe is absolutely lovely and the only thing I added was a small amount of fresh ground clove for that old authentic flavour.
Lovely – thank you 😉
Fab, so glad it worked and thanks for letting me know.
Loved these! Easy to make and toddler loved helping. Taste is husband and toddler approved. Will make again.
Hi, have just come across this recipe usinh honey, thx. Can I use fresh grated ginger instead of ground ginger?