Halloween Gingerbread Men

Ingredients

• 80g flour
• 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 tsp ginger
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 70g butter
• 90g light brown sugar
• 1 small egg - beaten
• 1 tbs syrup
• 1 pack of coloured icing tubes

Instructions

1. We make these using the food processor just for speed. Add the flour, bicarbonate of soda, ginger, cinnamon, butter and sugar to the food processor - blitz until it resembles breadcrumbs.
2. Add in the beaten egg and syrup - blitz again until a stiff dough is formed.
3. Tip the dough out, let the kids play with it to make it smooth and pliable.
4. Preheat the oven to 180C
5. Wrap in clingfilm and pop in the fridge for around 20 minutes to chill.
6. Grease a couple of baking sheets.
7. Remove the dough from the fridge and roll out to about 1/2 cm thick.
8. Cut out the gingerbread men and place on the greased baking sheets.
9. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes.
10. Leave the gingerbread men to cool for around 10 minutes on the tray and then slide them off the tray using a spatula and leave to cool on a wire rack.
11. Once cool decorate with coloured icing.