Gingerbread Men recipe cooking instructions :
Put the butter, the brown sugar and the golden syrup in a microwave proof bowl and microwave cook on high for 1 minute. This should melt these ingredients together nicely. Results may vary slightly depending on your microwaves power, so if not melted, add a few more seconds. Remove and allow the mixture to cool.
Sift the ground ginger, the self raising flour, plain flour, the cinnamon and into a large bowl, make a well in the centre of this and then add the eggs, the vanilla and cooled syrup mixture. Mix these gingerbread man recipe ingredients together well.
Knead the ingredients together to form a soft dough, then roll the dough out on a floured surface and cut out gingerbread men shapes.
Place the cut out gingerbread men onto greased baking trays and bake for about fifteen minutes at 160 degrees celsius.
Decorate your gingerbread men with icing and lollies, you can make eyes, faces, buttons all sorts of details.
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