Gingerbread!

For the best gingerbread, use this recipe! You can eat the biscuits with your hot chocolate at tomorrow's sleepover! Obviously post photos of your creations:
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Gingerbread Biscuits

Ingredients:
50g butter or margarine
50g golden caster sugar (or granulated)
100g golden syrup (or Agave nectar, Sweet Freedom fruit syrup)
200g self raising flour
1 heaped teaspoon ground ginger (or cinnamon)

Cookie cutters

Method:

1. Put the butter, sugar and syrup into a saucepan and heat gently until the sugar has dissolved. Do not allow the mixture to boil. Remove for the heat

2. Shift the flour and spice together and add to the mixture.

3. Stir together, then kneed until a ball.

4. Wrap in clingfilm and leave to cool (approx. 30mins)

5. Heat an oven to 180°c/350°f/gas 4.

6. Roll out mixture until about ½cm think and cut into shapes.

7. Cook for about 10mins (baking tray might need turning half way through cooking)

8. When shapes are golden brown and slightly risen remove from the oven and place on a cooling tray. They will harden as they cool.

9. Decorate if you want with icing pens etc.