Gingerbread Men

Name: Gingerbread Men
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 12 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: all-purpose flour 280 g; unsalted butter 100 g; brown sugar 90 g; molasses 70 ml; ground ginger 2 tsp; ground cinnamon 1 tsp; egg 1 ea

Quick answer

Active time: 37 min
Waiting: See the steps
Level: Easy
Servings: 6 servings
Ingredients: 7

About this dish

Molasses turns the dough deep brown and gives the sweetness a slightly bitter edge.

With ground ginger and cinnamon worked in, it is cut into little figures, baked, and decorated with icing eyes and buttons once cool. The edges should be crisp and the middle faintly chewy, and kept airtight, the spice grows stronger over a day or two.

Ingredients

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IngredientAmount

egg1 ea

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Instructions

6 steps

1

Let 100 g unsalted butter soften, then cream it with 90 g brown sugar for 2 to 3 minutes.

Mix until the color lightens slightly and the sugar grains feel less coarse.
2

Add 1 egg and mix until evenly blended, then pour in 70 ml molasses gradually.

If the mixture looks split, scrape down the bowl and mix again until it turns smooth and glossy.
3

Add 280 g all-purpose flour, 2 tsp ground ginger, and 1 tsp ground cinnamon, then fold with a spatula.

Stop as soon as no dry flour remains so the cookies do not turn tough.
4

Flatten the dough into a disk, wrap it, and chill it for at least 1 hour.

It is ready to roll when it sticks less to your hands and slowly yields when pressed.
5

Lightly flour the work surface and roll the dough to an even thickness.

Cut out figure shapes and place them spaced apart on the baking tray so the edges stay clear as they bake.
6

Bake at 175C for 10-12 minutes, until the edges feel lightly firm.

Let the cookies rest on the tray briefly, then move them to cool completely before adding any icing decoration.