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Skeleton gingerbread men
- Janine Ratcliffe
Published: October 17, 2017 at 4:30 PM
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Makes 30 biscuits
Easy
Total time: 1 hr
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Check out our skeleton gingerbread men. This simple gingerbread biscuit recipe easily makes 30 spooky skeletons, and they’re the ideal Halloween treat for all the kids to enjoy
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Ingredients
Nutrition
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300g plain flour
plus extra for dusting
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1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
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2 tsp ground ginger
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½ tsp ground cinnamon
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125g butter
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100g soft dark brown or dark muscovado sugar
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2 tbsp golden syrup
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2 tbsp black treacle
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100g royal icing
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to decorate black edible food colour pen or black writing icing
(optional)
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal101
- fat3.6g
- saturates2.2g
- carbs16g
- sugars8.2g
- fibre0.5g
- protein1.1g
- salt0.2g
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Method
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step 1
Heat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Mix the flour, bicarb, ground ginger and ground cinnamon in a bowl.
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step 2
Put the butter, sugar, syrup and treacle in a pan and heat gently until melted. Pour into the flour mix and combine to a dough (if it feels too stiff, add a drop of water to help bring it together).
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step 3
Roll out the dough on a lightly floured worksurface to about ½cm thick. Cut into biscuits using a gingerbread man cutter, then gather up the off cuts, reroll and keep cutting until you have used up all the dough.
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step 4
Lay onto two baking-paper-lined baking sheets and cook for 12-14 minutes until dark golden brown. Cool completely.
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step 5
To decorate, put the royal icing in a bowl and mix in enough water (about 1-2 tbsp) until the texture resembles toothpaste.
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step 6
Use a piping bag with a very thin nozzle to pipe skeleton outlines on the biscuits. Leave to set, then add faces with an edible food colour pen or writing icing, if you like.
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step 7
These will keep for 3-4 days in an airtight container. If transporting to a party, put sheets of baking paper between the biscuit layers to keep the icing from being damaged.
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Authors
Janine RatcliffeFood director
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