I’m Ann Readon and today we are making gingerbread Christmas
.
We have a tradition in our family of making a gingerbread house every Chistmas, and I showed you how to make the houses last year and had a lot of requests for gingerbread cookies.
These are easy to make and lots of fun for everyone to get involved in decorating. To make your gingerbread
, place the
in a
and melt it over a high heat. All of the
quantities you need are on the website howtocookthat.net, and you"ll also find a few different gingerbread house designs there, and a whole page of ginger bread house ideas for you to
check out. I’ll put a link to this recipe in the description just below the video and that will link to all the other pages.
Then measure up your
and your
, I’m using a mixture of glucose syrup and
golden syrup. You can use some
syrup,
maple syrup or even
. The choice is that you may change the
and colour of your cookie dough a little bit, but just substitute equal quantities there.
Stir that into your butter over a high heat and lift up your
to see if your sugar is dissolved. Here you can still see the sugar crystals still on the spoon, so you need keep stirring it until it looks clear like this.
Then take it off the
heat. Pour in the
and stir that through.
Add in your flour and
sift in the
ground ginger , the
cloves, the bicarb and the
cinnamon. The reason I’m sifting them is to make sure we don’t get any little
lumps of
in one spot and then stir that through well.