Gingerbread men and other ginger bread recipes

midlandsfairy

Hi All,

I'm a newbie here but was just wondering if anyone could help me out. Ive been trying to get into the christmassy spirit by baking gingerbread men but they've all turned out badly!

Have tried three different recipes, one came out really sticky, the other had about 20 ingredients and tasted weird and the third just ended up as gingerbread crumbs.

Although it probably serves me right for trying to be a domestic goddess (lol), I still want to try and make a decent batch. Has anyone got a tried and tested recipe they could pass on?

Thanks!

Lucy
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Bexstars

Hiya

I made this a couple of weeks ago, it makes loads so I ended up freezing half of the dough to make later on

Gingerbread

225g Self raising flour
110g Brown sugar
110g Butter
1 egg beaten
1 large tbsp Golden syrup
2 tea spoon ground ginger

Crean the butter and sugar together and add the syrup, mix the ginger into seived flour with the beaten egg and stir the whole mixture to make a dough. Roll out, cut into shapes and bake in oven at about 180 for roughly 20 mins.

These came out not too gingery which is good for me as im not overly keen on ginger but you can add how ever much you like to taste

midlandsfairy

Thanks for that, thats brill. Will try making them tonight. Fingers crossed!!!

Lucy
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hollydays

I bought a gingerbread man cutter from lakeland that imprints the buttons ,and the face into the biscuit (have yet to try it out!)
Now my little grandaughter is coming to visit for a week or two,can anyone give me a nice recipe?

angelnikki

Gingerbread Men

450g plain flour
2tsp ground ginger
1tsp ground mixed spice (you can miss this out and just use ginger as this makes them quite spicy)
2tsp bicarb of soda
115g butter
100g golden syrup
115g light muscavado sugar
1 beaten egg

Mix flour, ginger, mixed spice and bicarb in a large bowl.
Melt the butter, golden syrup & sugar in a pan and then pour onto the dry mix.
Add the beaten egg and mix to form a dough.
Roll out to 3mm thickness, cut out shapes and cook for 15-20 mins Gas6 until golden brown.
Decorate with icing (optional)

Penelope_Penguin

Hi, there :beer: We have a gingerbread lady, and 2 gingerbread children cutters, too

I'll add this to the existing gingerbread thread so that you can see other recipes.

Penny. x

foreversomeday

I'm looking for a specific gingerbread recipe, it was out of a magazine and was an old Silver Spoon (sugar) advertisement. It makes the best gingerbread ever, and my sister forgot to bring it round today!

Does anyone have a copy? Long shot I know We are going to experiment if not, we have the list of ingredients!

1sttimer_2

Can any of you lovely peeps help me out please? I've lost my favourite gingerbread/parkin pig recipe and need to make some for school Friday. Could anyone let me have a good one or direct me to the best website to get it.

I've googled it and I do remember mine having demerara sugar in to make it crunchy, but none of those on the sites use it.

Thank you,

patchwork_cat

http://www.inkamera.ukgo.com/chrisyy/10pr-0.htm one amongst this lot!

Penelope_Penguin

1sttimer wrote: »

Can any of you lovely peeps help me out please? I've lost my favourite gingerbread/parkin pig recipe and need to make some for school Friday. Could anyone let me have a good one or direct me to the best website to get it.

Gingerbread and parkin are different things I'll look for some links for you. There's a thread on both here. The ones with oats are parkin; without, they're gingerbread

What's "parkin pig"?