Tuesday 29 October 2013

Halloween fun

We normally bake a lot of gingerbread for Christmas but I have bought 3 Halloween shapes this year and we have started early! I have also stopped a simple way to make a gingerbread man into a Halloween themed. So I'm sharing these with you!
It's a great activity idea for kids - it's like a play dough, you roll it out and use the  cutters, but the fun doesn't finish there. Because you have a biscuit to eat at the end of it!

































We have been using gingerbread recipe that I love, though I'm not even sure where I got it from anymore! This time I have used wholemeal flour instead of plain because I happened to not have plain when we started baking. And I liked the texture a lot more with wholemeal flour, just had to be aware that the biscuits were darker than usually.

350 g/12 oz plain flour
10 ml/2 tsp ground ginger
5 ml/1 tsp ground cinnamon
2,5 ml/ ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
100 g butter
175 g/6 oz soft brown sugar
60 ml/ 4tbsp golden syrup
1 egg, beaten
Method:
1.       Sieve the flour, spices and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl. Rub in the butter with the fingers until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.

2.       Stir in sugar.

3.       Add the syrup and the beaten egg to the flour mixture; mix to a soft dough. If it’s sticky, add a little more flour.

4.       Knead the dough lightly until smooth.

5.       Roll out as desired. Basically if it’s thin, the gingerbread will be crispy, and if it’s rolled out thickly, it will be softer. Bake in the preheated over at 190C. Most items will take 8-10 mins, smaller biscuits might take less time and bigger ones may take longer.
And for decorating I have just used a simple designer icing in a tube that I bought in a supermarket! You might have better ideas :)
Enjoy!

 


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