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Christmas Gingerbread Men

A classic Christmas bake
Prep Time 8 minutes
Course: Snack
Cuisine: biscuits, treats

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 Cup Unsalted Butter
  • 3/4 Cup Light Brown Sugar
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon
  • pinch Ground Cloves
  • 2 tsp Ginger
  • 2 Cups Plain Flour / All Purpose flour
  • 1/2 tbsp Black Treacle
  • 2 tbsp Maple Syrup
  • 1 Egg
  • 2 tsp Vanilla Extract

Method
 

  1. Soften the Butter and mix in the brown sugar
  2. Add in the spices, treacle, maple syrup, vanilla, and egg. Stir thoroughly.
  3. Add in the flour and mix with a spoon and then form to a dough ball using hands
  4. Ideally chill the dough in the refrigerator for an hour. If you have a little person who wants to just make the dough / you don't have enough time, then you can get away with skipping this step and the biscuits will still turn out ok.
  5. Preheat the oven to 350 farenheit / 160 clesius fan oven and line a baking sheet
  6. Roll out the dough to 1/4 inch thick and cut the Gingerbread men / Cookie shapes out of the dough.
  7. Bake in the centre of the oven for 8-10 minutes
  8. Cool on a wire rack