Larry's Kitchen
🍳 Gingerbread Men
🦁 Why Larry Likes This One
Larry loves how they look like little people!
Serves
12
Prep
20 min
Cook
12 min
Level
⭐⭐ Getting Confident
⚠️ Allergen Information
🌾Gluten (Cereals)🥚Eggs🥛Milk
Always check ingredient labels every time you cook. Ingredients can change. If your child has a diagnosed food allergy, follow their healthcare team's advice.
🥕 Ingredients
- •350 g plain flour
- •100 g butter
- •100 g brown sugar
- •100 g golden syrup
- •2 tsp ground ginger
- •1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- •1 egg
🔧 Equipment
baking traymixing bowlgingerbread cutterrolling pin
📝 Method
🔥 Oven/Cooking temperature: 180°C / Gas 4
- 1Adult: preheat the oven to 180°C / Gas 4.
- 2Adult: melt the butter, sugar and golden syrup in a saucepan.
- 3Mix the flour, ginger and bicarbonate of soda.
- 4Add the egg to the melted mixture, then pour into the dry ingredients.
- 5Mix to a dough and chill for 30 minutes.
- 6Roll out and cut into gingerbread people.
- 7Put on a baking tray.
- 8Adult: bake for 12 minutes until golden.
🦁 My Jobs
- ✓ Mix the dough
- ✓ Roll out
- ✓ Cut into shapes
- ✓ Add decorations
👨👩👧 Grown-Up Jobs
- ⚠️ Use the oven and hob
- ⚠️ Handle hot baking tray
- ⚠️ Hot syrup can burn
⚠️ Food Safety
- • Adult must operate the oven
- • Hot syrup can cause severe burns — keep children back
- • Tray will be very hot — use oven gloves
🧩 Try It Your Way
Try decorating with icing, chocolate chips or Smarties.
