Gingerbread Children Cookies

How cute are these gingerbread children? They are easy to bake, and you can also get the kids to help you decorate – it’s fun for them!

Yield: 40 Cookies
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 15 mins
Difficulty Level: 1/5

Ingredients

• 3 cups plain flour
• 1½ cups caster sugar
• 1 tbsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp mixed spice
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 200 g butter, melted
• 1 tbsp golden syrup
• 1 egg, beaten lightly
• Pink and silver cachous, to decorate

ROYAL ICING

• 1 egg white
• 2 cups pure icing sugar, sifted
• 2 tsps lemon juice

Steps

01. Sift dry ingredients in a large bowl. Combine butter, syrup and egg in a small bowl, and stir into the dry mixture. Knead dough until smooth.

02. Divide dough into 2. Roll 1 piece between sheets of baking paper until 3 mm thick. Slide dough on baking paper onto a tray. Chill 30 mins until firm. Repeat twice with remaining dough.

03. Preheat oven to moderate, 180 C. Line 3 oven trays.

04. Peel baking paper from top of dough, place back on dough. Turn over and remove top paper. Cut out dough with a 7-cm gingerbread cutter, lift with a palette knife and place about 3 cm papers on trays. Knead scraps together and re-roll. Repeat.

05. Bake, in batches, 10 to 12 mins, until golden brown. Cool on trays.

06. ROYAL ICING In a small bowl, with electric mixer, beat egg white until foamy. Beat in icing sugar, 1 tbsp at a time. Beat in juice.

07. Decorate gingerbread with royal icing and cachous as shown.

Photo: BauerSyndication.com.au