RIC-20937 Early years Fairytales - Gingerbread Man

Recipes
Gingerbread men biscuits
(makes 20 biscuits)
Ingredients (biscuits)
Ingredients (icing)
• 125 g butter
• 1 egg white
• ½ cup brown sugar
• 1 cup icing sugar
• ½ cup golden syrup
• 1 egg yolk
• 2½ cups plain flour
• 1 tsp. bicarbonate of soda
• 1 tbs. ground ginger
• 1 tsp. mixed spice
• raisins, currants and cherries (optional for decorations)
• extra plain flour to dust surface
Instructions
• 8 to 10 drops each of green and
red food colouring
• confectionery such as Smarties
for buttons (optional)
• Preheat oven to 180 °C. Line two baking trays with baking paper. In a bowl, beat the butter and brown sugar with an electric
beater until pale and creamy. Add the egg yolk and golden syrup and beat until combined. Stir in the sifted flour, mixed spice,
bicarbonate of soda and ginger. Place onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth. Mould into a disc shape, cover
with plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 30 minutes.
• Put egg white into a bowl and beat until soft peaks form. Gradually add icing sugar and beat until stiff peaks form. Divide
the icing among three bowls. Put red food colouring in one bowl, green in another and mix. Leave the third plain. Cover with
plastic wrap and cool in fridge.
• Roll chilled dough between two sheets of baking paper until thin. Use a gingerbread cutter to cut out ‘men’. Place on trays.
Keep rolling and cutting shapes until all dough is used. If raisins, currants or cherries are to be used as decorations, press
into biscuits before cooking. Bake in oven for about 10 minutes or until brown.
• Put icing into plastic bags and cut a small hole in corner. Pipe onto cooled gingerbread men to decorate. Add confectionery if
desired.
Gingerbread
playdough
Toasted gingerbread
men
(For children to use to mould into
gingerbread men shapes.)
Ingredients
• 2 cups plain flour
• 4 tbs. cream of tartar
• 2 tbs. cooking oil
• 1 cup salt
• 2 cups water
• spices: ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice
• food colouring: green and red to make brown
(Optional, as the spices already give a brown tinge.)
Instructions
Ingredients
• milk
• food colouring
• unused paintbrushes
• bread slices
Instructions
• Pour about one-quarter of a cup of milk into each of four
or five clear plastic cups. Add 1 to 2 drops of different
coloured food colouring into each cup and stir to mix.
Give each child a slice of bread. They use a gingerbread
man biscuit cutter to press onto bread and cut out a ‘man’.
Set aside the remainder of the slice for another use. They
then dip a different paintbrush in each colour to paint the
features of their gingerbread man on the bread. When
complete, place the bread into a toaster to cook and eat.
• Mix all ingredients in a saucepan. Stir over a medium heat
until all congealed. Once cooled, add drops of chosen
colour of food colouring and mix by hand until desired
colour is achieved.
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