GINGERBREAD PEOPLE

Ingredients

125g butter or brick margarine
125ml (½ cup) Huletts SunSweet Brown Sugar, firmly packed
1 egg
625ml (2½ cups) plain flour
5ml (1 teaspoon) bicarbonate of soda

15ml (3 teaspoons) ground ginger
40ml (2½ Tablespoons) Huletts Golden Syrup

ICING:
125ml (½ cup) Huletts Icing Sugar, mixed with a little boiling water to make a small quantity of glacé icing.

Method

1.     Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, add egg and beat well. Gradually add sifted dry ingredients and syrup, mix well, knead lightly. Divide dough into 6 portions, and roll each portion till 3mm thick.

2.     Cut out gingerbread figures with special cutters or cut around cardboard shapes with a sharp knife.

3.     Bake in a moderate oven (180ºC) for 10 minutes. Cool on trays.

Spoon icing into a small plastic bag, snip off one corner to make a piping bag. Pipe on features and clothing. Makes about 20.

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