Gingerbread
Ingredients
- 125 g brown sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 300 gm treacleor golden syrup
- 2 tablespoon ground ginger
- 180 g butter
- 500 g plainflour
- ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- extraflour for rolling
Instructions
- Preheatoven to 160°Cfor 15 minutes.
- In a large bowl, beat the sugar, salt, treacle or golden syrup, ginger and butterwith an electric mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes.
- Add remaining ingredients and mix until mixture forms a thick dough.
- Place on floured work surface. Roll out to about 3mm thickness and cut into desiredshapes.
- Place on a baking tray and bake in a moderate (160° fan forced) ovenfor 25-30 minutes or until firm to touch (dough will firm up as it cools).