Gingerbread People

    My daugther made these cute gingerbread people for her friends in Christmas :)

     Recipe from: Women's Weekly Magazine
   Ingredients:

   125g butter
   100g firm packed brown sugar
   1 egg yolk
   375g plain flour
   1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
   3 teaspoons ground ginger
   125ml golden syrup



    Royal Icing
    1 egg white
    240g pure icing sugar, approximately
    food colourings

roll dough between sheets of baking paper until 3mm thick.

cut gingerbread shapes from dough

some other shapes too

she loves doing this part.

  Method

  1.  Beat butter, sugar and yolk in small bowl with electric mixer until smooth. Stir in sifted dry ingredients and golden syrup, mix to a soft dough.  Knead gently on lightly floured surface until smooth. Roll dough between sheets of baking paper until 3mm thick.

  2.  With 3cm apart on greased oven trays, bake them in 180C about 10 minutes or until lightly browned.  Cool on trays.  Spoon icing into piping bag fitted with a small plai tube, decorate shapes as desired.

  3.  For Royal Icing:  Beat egg white in a small bowl with mixer until frothy, gradually beat in enough sifted icing sugar to give a mixture of piping consisitency.  Colour as desired.  Kepp royal icing cobered with damp cloth to prevent drying out.

these represents her good friends..