Spicy Gingerbread Men

Ingredients

Serves: 24

125g margarine or butter
90g (1/2 cup) brown sugar
125g (1/2 cup) golden syrup or molasses
1 egg yolk
250g (2 cups) plain flour, sifted
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg

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Prep: 15 minutes | Cook: 10 minutes | Extra time: 5 minutes

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We love it! My 3 year old daughter loves making these with me.

Posted: 09 Oct 2011

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Fabulous recipe! I've made this a couple of times with a few fun spicy tweaks. I don't think you can top this recipe! I cooked them for about 8-9 minutes to keep them a little on the soft side. I have also made the dough and kept it refrigerated for 18 or so hours and they still turned out great!

Posted: 26 Dec 2010

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Something else. I used only 1/2 a teaspoon of cloves, but added 1/2 a teaspoon of cardamom. The best bit though was the 3/4 teaspoon of fresh ground black pepper I added, bit of a subtle zing!

Posted: 26 Dec 2010

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Something else. Add 1/8th teaspoon of ground Cardamon. Add 200g of Blackcurrants. Use a sharp cookie cutter for those times when a Blackcurrant needs to be cut to make the shape. No need to ice them.

Posted: 19 Jan 2010

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Great and easy recipe. I like a bit of spice in my gingerbread so its nice to find a recipe that has that in mind. I used some small bite sized cookie cutters and got a batch of 86 cookies. My friends especially liked the Kahlua icing that I dipped them into with a chocolate Smartie to finish them off. They couldn't stop eating them throughout the night. I also made another batch for myself where I added a dash of ground Cardamon for a lovely exotic flavour (not too much!) and added a bunch of Blackcurrants so that they didn't need to be iced. Great with a cup of tea!

Posted: 19 Jan 2010

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This was an easy recipe to make, and they taste great. I'm never sure when gingerbread is cooked and I too have a dud oven, like a toaster oven. I cooked them for about 12 minutes. They should be light brown when they come out of the oven and they will still be quite soft, so be careful. If you bump them they will have a mark in them, or you could make a little face on them. When they cool them become harder.

Posted: 18 Dec 2009

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Delicious recipe, just yum! Took about twice the time to cook but that may just be our dud oven.

Posted: 23 May 2009

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Well my first gingerbread! made as an experiment, worked out tasty just like I'd hoped. I probably wont ice this batch but definitely will the next. Used golden syrup-yum.

Posted: 07 Dec 2008

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