A-may-zing! Available from play.com, if you're so inclined.
And here's the best recipe I've found so far...
Ingredients:
125g unsalted butter
100g dark muscavado sugaer
4 tbsp golden syrup
325g plain flour
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
2tsp ground ginger (adjust to taste. I put in 4 for fun. These were mighty ninjas after all!)
Method:
- Preheat oven to 170oC/GM3. Line baking trays with baking parchment.
- Melt the butter, sugar and golden syrup in a saucepan, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and allow to cool slightly while you
- Sieve the flour, bicarb and ginger into a large bowl.
- Stir the melted ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix to form a stiff dough.
- Lightly flour a flat, smooth surface and roll the gingerbread to about 5mm thick.
- Dip the cutters into flour before cutting into the dough.
- Arrange the shapes onto the lined baking trays, allowing a little room for spreading.
- Bake for approx 10 minutes, until light golden brown. Remove from oven, and allow to firm up on the trays for 2 or 3 minutes before placing on a wire rack to cool.
- Decorate with icing!
This was my first go at rolling out a hot dough, and it was a peculiar sensation. I did find the dough became harder to work with as it cooled, so work quickly, and try not to reuse the leftovers to often, it just becomes crumbly after a while!
