Annabel Karmel's Gingerbread Friends recipe
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- plus 30 mins chilling and extra decorating time
- Easy
- Makes 20
Ingredients
- 140g butter, softened
- 80g brown sugar
- 50g golden syrup
- 50g black treacle
- ½ egg, beaten
- 150g plain flour
- 150g self-raising flour
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp mixed spice
- ½ tsp allspice
- pinch of salt
For the decorations
- M&M's
- white writing icing pen
- edible eye decorations, optional
Method
- STEP 1
Preheat the oven to 180°C/340°F/Gas 4/Fan 170°C. Line 2 baking sheets with non-stick baking paper. Whisk the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl, until light and fluffy
- STEP 2
Add the syrup and treacle and egg. Mix well. Then add the flours, spices and salt. Mix again until you have a soft dough. Wrap in clingfilm and chill the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes
- STEP 3
Roll out the dough on a floured work surface. Stamp out 20 gingerbread shapes. Place on the baking sheets
- STEP 4
Bake for about 15 minutes, until lightly golden and firm in the middle. Cool on a wire rack.
- STEP 5
Decorate the cookies to give them 'people' features. Use the the M&M's to make 3 buttons down the front. Use the white icing pens to draw a mouth and mark out the arms and legs. For the eyes, either use the edible eyes (stuck on with a tiny blob of white icing) or use the white icing pen to make 2 dots above the mouth