Gingerbread Biscuits

Ingredients for Gingerbread Biscuits

Method for Gingerbread Biscuits

Step 0

Prepare baking trays with baking sheets on top.

Step 1

Sift 350 g plain flour, 2 tsp ground ginger, and 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda into a mixing bowl. Cut 100 g butter into chunks and add them.

Step 2

Rub the butter into flour with your fingers until mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs.

Step 3

Stir 175 g light brown sugar into the mixture.

Step 4

Break 1 egg into a small bowl, add 4 tbsp light syrup to the egg and beat them together well.

Step 5

Stir the eggy mixture into the flour. Mix everything together with a metal spoon until it forms a dough.

Step 6

Sprinkle a clean work surface with flour and place the dough onto it. Stretch the dough by pushing it away from you.

Step 7

Fold the dough in half. Turn it and push it away from you again, continue to push, turn, and fold until the dough is smooth.

Step 8

Cut the dough in half. Sprinkle a little more flour onto your work surface. Roll out the dough until it is about 5mm thick.

Step 9

Use cookie cutters to cut out shapes from the dough. Lift the shapes onto the baking sheets.

Step 10

Roll out the other half of the dough and cut shapes from it. Squeeze the scraps of dough to make a ball. Roll it out and cut more shapes.

Step 11

Put the biscuits on the baking sheets into the oven and bake them for 12-15 minutes. They will turn golden brown.

Step 12

Leave the biscuits on the sheets for about five minutes. Then lift them onto a wire rack. Leave to cool.