Last week the children made their own gingerbread man. You can find the recipe below and ask your child to help you to remember it!

Ingredients
100g Butter
175g Brown Sugar
100g Currants
350g Plain Flour
5g bicarbonate of soda
1 egg
15g golden syrup
500g icing sugar
5g ground ginger

Equipment
Mixing Bowl
Sieve
Rolling Pin
Baking Tray
Gingerbread Man Cutter

Method
1. Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 5.
2. Melt the butter, sugar and golden syrup into a pan.
3. When melted, remove from oven.
4. Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ground ginger into a large mixing bowl and add the egg.
5. Stir the melted ingredients into the dry ingredients until you have a fairly stiff dough.
6. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface, to a thickness of 5mm.
7. Cut out your gingerbread man using the cutter.
8. Carefully lift it onto a baking tray.
9. Bake it in the oven for 8-10 minutes.
10. Remove from oven and leave to cool.
11. Decorate with icing sugar.