Gluten Free Gingerbread People
This recipe is so easy to make and it’s perfect for baking with children to keep them entertained at Christmas! You’ll fill your home with the scents of ginger and cinnamon spice while baking this recipe.
Credited to: Freee
Kcal:
Difficulty: More of a challenge
Serves 6
12 mins cooking time
Ingredients
- 200g FREEE Plain White Flour
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp FREEE Xanthan Gum
- ¼ tsp FREEE Bicarbonate of Soda
- 75g caster sugar
- 50g butter
- 2 tbsp golden syrup*
- 1 egg
- Butter (for trays)
- Flour (for dusting)
- Writing icing (for decoration)
Notes: *Check Coeliac UK's Food and Drink Information for suitable products
Method
- Measure the flour, ginger, cinnamon, xanthan gum and soda into a mixing bowl and stir to combine.
- Sieve the flour blend into a separate large mixing bowl.
- Put the sugar, butter and syrup into a saucepan and heat gently, swirling the pan occasionally until dissolved.
- Pour the saucepan contents onto the prepared flour and stir to combine.
- Add the egg and mix into a sticky dough.
- Cover and chill the dough for an hour or until firm.
- Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees celcius/Fan 160 degrees/Gas Mark 4 .
- Rub some butter around the inside of two large baking trays or insert a baking liner.
- Dust the work surface with flour, put the dough in the middle and sprinkle it with more flour.
- Roll out the dough until 7mm/¼” thick.
- Press the gingerbread people cookie cutter into the dough to cut out the shapes.
- Gently transfer the shapes to the prepared baking trays, leaving plenty of space between each shape.
- Gather left over dough into a ball, roll it out again and cut more shapes.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes.
- Leave to cool on the tray.
- Using writing icing to decorate the cold gingerbread people.
