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| We have a gingerbread house every year at Christmas. |
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| Mom's tree |
Mom is spending all of her time sewing cute pink tree decorations like cute dogs with pink coats and a beautiful star with a button in the middle! These pink decorations go on mother's dining room tree, which looks really cool!
Mom's tree is still quite bare, so we're going to bake some gingerbread cookies! We definitely won't put them at the bottom of the tree, one year Maisie ate them! All that was left was the ribbons and a couple of crumbs! Dogs love gingerbread!
Incase you want to bake your own gingerbread cookies, here's the recipe!
Ingredients:
350g Plain Flour
1tsp of Bicarb of Soda
2tsp of Ground Ginger
1tsp of Ground Cinnamon (if you don't want to use Cinnamon, you can use mixed spice instead)
1 Egg
4tbsp Golden Syrup (and another tablespoon for eating yourself!)
To decorate:
Writing Icing
Cake decorations/sweets.
Method:
1: Sift the Flour, Bicarb of Soda, Ginger and Cinnamon/Mixed Spice into a bowl. Chop the butter into small pieces and rub into the dry mixture until it looks like bread crumbs (This is my favourite bit!). Stir in the sugar.
2: Beat the Egg and Golden Syrup together. Mix it into the dry mixture to make a smooth dough. Wrap the dough in clingfilm and leave in the fridge to chill for 15 minutes, or even longer! The colder it is the better it rolls out.
3: Preheat the oven to 180c/350f/Gas4. Line two baking trays with grease-proof paper.
4: Roll out the dough to a 0.5 cm thickness on a lightly floured surface. Using cutters, cut out Ginger bread man shapes, or stars, or anything you want and place on a baking tray. Don't let them touch each other.
5: Bake to 12-15 minutes until lightly golden-brown. Leave on the tray for 10 minutes to cool and then move to a wire rack to finish cooling. Now you can decorate them!
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| The cookies smelled delicious |
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| Time to decorate |
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