Come Make Gingerbread with Us
Hi,
We have dozens of designs for you to choose from but our gingerbread man has been a family and customer favourite for a couple of years now. We keep things fresh by constantly releasing new batches (excuse the pun) of the little cutie in different colour-ways and fabrics. My eldest, but but still teeny, son’s absolute favourite tv programme to watch is the BBC’s Philharmonic Musical Story of the Gingerbread Man by the wonderful and captivating voice of narrator Nihal Arthanayake. You can only imagine his delight when I announced we were making our very own gingerbread people last weekend. In fact it extended to stars and dinosaurs for good measure - some of his other favourite things right now. His only disappointment was that none jumped out of the oven. We’d like to share a selection of our goodies that you can purchase for the tree below and also a little recipe.
Happy baking!
Katie xo
Ingredients:
350g/12oz plain flour
1 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
3 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
125g unsalted butter cut up into cubes
150g soft brown sugar
2 tablespoons golden syrup
1 tablespoon black treacle
Method:
Preheat the oven to 180ºC
Get your baking paper ready
Sift your flour into a big bowl
Add in the bicarbonate of soda and the spices and mix through
Separately melt the butter in a saucepan with a low heat and then add and stir in the sugar and golden syrup
add this all to the dry ingredients
Stir together to get a stiff dough and leave to sit for 20 mins
Roll the dough out to a couple of mm thick on a flour dusted surface or directly on to greaseproof paper then use your favourite cutter shapes
We squished any leftover bits into the stars
Put in the oven for about 10-15 mins, start checking after 10
When golden brown take out and place on a cooling rack
In a mo you can do the best bit - decorate!
The image with the stripes background is credited to inklover shop in Northern Ireland and taken by Native Ivy photography.
