Simple Way to Prepare Jamie Oliver Mini gingerbread people

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have mini gingerbread people using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Mini gingerbread people:

1. Prepare 175 g dark muscovado sugar
2. Make ready 85 g golden syrup
3. Get 100 g salted butter
4. Make ready 350 g plain flour (plus extra for dusting)
5. Prepare 1 tsp bicarbonate soda
6. Take 1 tbsp ground ginger
7. Make ready 1 tsp ground cinnamon
8. Take 1 egg
9. Prepare Icing pens

Scrape the batter into the mini loaf pan and place it onto a sheet pan. Cool it slightly in the pan before tipping it out and letting it cool completely on a wire rack. If making a gingerbread house, bake the dough a little longer to ensure that it is dry and therefor, stable. Let the baked gingerbread dry out at room temperature overnight.

Instructions to make Mini gingerbread people:

1. Put the sugar, syrup and butter in a pan. Melt over a medium heat and bubble for 2 min Minutes. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool.
2. Mix the flour, bicarbonate soda, ginger and cinnamon in a bowl. Add the cooled sugar mixture and the egg. Stir into the flour and form a dough. Knead for 2-3 minutes and then wrap in cling film and chill for 30 mins or more.
3. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Roll out the dough to a 3mm thickness. Then use a cookie cutter to cut out your gingerbread. I decided to use a mini cutter (5cm x 4cm) to get bite size biscuits but you could use any shape or size. This picture below shows the scale.
4. Line a large baking tray with baking paper and place your gingerbread people on it. The dough will expand when cooking so be sure to leave a good gap between each one. You’ll have to cook multiple batches.
5. If making small people, bake in the oven for 5-6 minutes. For larger people, bake for 8-9 minutes. You want them to bake until golden. Be careful not to burn them - they can turn very quickly. - (see tip)
6. Once cooked, remove from the tray from the oven and transfer the gingerbread to a cooling rack. Once cool, decorate and enjoy!

If making a gingerbread house, bake the dough a little longer to ensure that it is dry and therefor, stable. Let the baked gingerbread dry out at room temperature overnight. This step is a bit necessary to have a long lasting gingerbread house. Mini Gingerbread Cakes When most people thing of gingerbread, they conjure images of crunchy little cookies. But, traditionally gingerbread is a soft, spicy cake.

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