Make yourself some Gingerbread Biscuits this Christmas!

When it comes to Christmas baking, you can’t go wrong with gingerbread. Try these traditional sweetly spiced biscuits and put your own spin on them with festive cookie cutter shapes and fun icing decorations.

Festive Gingerbread Biscuits

(makes 12)

Ingredients

For the biscuits

8oz plain flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp ground ginger

1 tsp cinnamon

2oz butter or margarine

2oz soft brown sugar

2 heaped tablespoons golden syrup

For the icing

Icing sugar

Boiling water

You will also need a sieve, cookie cutters, piping bags or a small sandwich bag, and a baking tray.

Method

Sift the flour, baking powder, ginger, and cinnamon into a large mixing bowl. Put the butter, brown sugar, and golden syrup into a saucepan and melt together over a low heat, stirring so the sugar doesn’t burn.

Take the pan off the heat and pour the melted ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix together by hand until it forms a soft smooth dough. On a floured work surface, roll out the dough to about 1cm thickness, and cut out the biscuits using whichever shape cookie cutters you like best.

Place the biscuits on a greased baking tray and bake in the oven at 150C for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Once baked, let the biscuits cool on a wire rack.

While the biscuits are cooling, make the icing. Sift five tablespoons of icing sugar into a bowl and add a splash of boiling water. Stir until you have a smooth paste (you may need to add more sifted sugar or more water to reach the desired consistency).

Make sure the biscuits are fully cooled, then spoon the icing into the piping bags. If you don’t have piping bags, a small sandwich bag will work well – gather the icing in one corner of the bag and snip off the very tip of the bag’s corner.

Pipe the icing onto the biscuits in whichever pattern you fancy. This is your chance to be creative! We like decorating round biscuits like Christmas tree baubles, and star biscuits like winter snowflakes. If you’ve used traditional gingerbread men cookie cutters, you can use the icing to draw jolly smiles and a festive bow tie. Silver ball decorations add a shiny flourish to whichever design you pick.

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