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Gingerbread Men
Recipe submitted by Wifey on July 31st, 2008
This recipe makes great crunchy gingerbread men. You could also use this recipe to make gingerbread hearts for Valentine's Day, gingerbread four leaf clovers (with green icing) for St Patrick's Day, or gingerbread butterflies for a girl's birthday party. Make a small hole at the top of the gingerbread men using a skewer before baking and you'll be able to thread ribbon and hang from your Christmas tree. Decorating the gingerbread at the end is super fun for kids and will keep them amused for a good hour or two on a rainy day.
Prep time: 10 minutesCook time: 8 minutes
Ingredients:
125g (4 ozs.) Butter
2 1/2 Tablespoons Golden Syrup
2 teaspoons ground Ginger
1 teaspoon ground Nutmeg
1/2 cup Sugar
2 cups Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 Egg Yolk
Directions:
1. Melt butter, sugar, and golden syrup in a pot over low to medium heat. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
2. Beat in egg yolk and sift in dry ingredients.
3. Knead and roll out to 1/2cm thick. Use cookie cutter to cut out shapes.
4. Place shapes on baking tray on top of baking paper.
5. Bake at 180 degrees C for about 8 minutes. They are done when the edges are golden brown.
6. Remove from oven and allow to cool on rack before decorating.
To make it really fun for the kids, create several different coloured icings and have a variety of sprinkles, sugar balls and mini M&M's on hand. Use the icing to stick the decorations to the gingerbread.
ICING RECIPE
175g (6 ozs.) Icing Sugar
1 tablespoon Boiling Water
1 tablespoon Butter
Combine water and butter and stir in icing sugar. Divide mixture and add a drop or two of food colouring.
You can make icing bag by placing some of the icing in a small plastic bag (such as a plastic sandwich bag) and cutting a very small hole in one of the bottom corners.
Average Rating: 
(23 votes)
Comments / Reviews of Gingerbread Men
Amazing! Did not find crumbly at all, really easy to cut shapes! Smell and taste extra good! :)
Pretty average cookies. As above if you follow th recipe to the letter it's too dry. There are far better recipes out there, I suggest looking around. Only used this recipe because I didn't have brown sugar.The nutmeg is a nice twist.
I added extra golden syrup however still very crumbly, it was hard to get gingerbread shapes out... my girls 3 & 5 even with assistance struggled so I had to take over completely-which was upsetting for them... we of course had an absolute ball decorating & they tasted okay... will try different recipe next time!
These are absolutly delicious.. I read all comments before my son and I baked these yummy biscuits and ended up putting in 3 heaped tbls of golden syrup and alil extra ginger.. They were perfect not crumbly at all..
Unfortunately the kids couldn't help out with this one as it was too crumbly and terrible to knead. I added a good half a cup of flour to moisten dough which helped out heaps. I was very surprised at how good they turned out, very yummy and will try again. Tip for future bakers, just melt butter in microwave then add golden syrup, sugar and egg yolk.
Anyone who makes this and thinks it tastes hideous is doing it wrong (or doesn't like gingerbread!) I just made a bunch of "ninja bread" using this recipe and they turned out great and taste really good! I did read all the feedback here prior to baking so decided in order to avoid it being too crumbly (keeping in mind gingerbread is naturally quite a crumbly dough) I added 3 generous tablespoons of golden syrup as opposed to 2.5 tablespoons. I also made my teaspoon fulls of ginger heaped. End result = awesome flavour and a good chewy texture once cool! Will most definitely be making again! :D
Tastes absolutely hideous, won't even give it to my dog to eat..if I had a dog! Will use them for decorations instead.
Best recipe on the net - delish!!
As per other comments here, my mixture was initially too crumbly, but adding about 1/2 tsp of water solved the problem. Easy! I make about 140 tiny gingerbread stars out of this, which are great to nibble on after dinner (and go wonderfully well with lemon sorbet or frozen yoghurt as a light dessert).
I found that the mixture was very crumbly and not easy to knead.
Loved it! My 20 month old son and I had fun! Thank you :-)
I added 2 tsp's more of ginger and a bit of cinnamon - plus a bit more sugar - and they taste fine. i found it sticky not dry - probably due to my adaptations!
Mixture so so dry. could not roll out and made it very diffficult to work with. Had to use a little milk to make it work together and even then it was still not great. we followed recipe exactly, so not sure what the problemw as but dont think will be using this one again.
Great recipe thanks, best thing is there is no waiting for the mix to chill, my 3 year-old son and I had a great time making these. They taste great too! Thanks for sharing the recipe. Will be recommending it to my friends and family :)
this is a terrible recipe - to crumbly and dry. we had to add milk to make it suceed!
A great gingerbread recipe for making with children because there is no waiting for it to chill etc. Can do whole thing to iced finished product in one hour.
They came out great, I plan on making a gingerbread house for christmas, can't wait! If the recipe was too dry I suggest being generous with the golden syrup next time because it tends to stick to the spoon so you end up adding alot less. Slightly healthier than adding more butter. You can also spray the spoon with cooking oil spray before measuring the golden syrup and it will simply slide off the spoon.
these cookies were ok but not what i expected
Didn't stick together
Made them with a group of neighbourhood kids. They loved them!!!
the mixture dosent stay together so we had to add more butter
Also check out my other recipe "Christmas Cookies" which is an excellent recipe for creating fun cookies with your cookie cutter shapes. A great alternative for those who don't like gingerbread.
I made these Gingerbread Men with my class of 5 and 6 year olds. Because they were cooked in one lot they were very manageable. They cooked quickly and the kids thought they were delicious! Instead of decorating them with icing, we used currants and sliced cherry for features. Thanks, Wifey!