GINGER BREAD HOUSE Ingredients
250g unsalted butter 1. Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 200g dark muscovado 6. Melt the butter, sugar and syrup in a pan. sugar 2. Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ground ginger into 7 tbsp golden syrup a large bowl, then stir in the 600g plain flour butter mixture to make a stiff 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda dough. If it won’t quite come together, add a tiny splash of 4 tsp ground ginger water. 3. Cut out the template, and roll out the dough and cut. 4. Cut out one of the sections, then slide the gingerbread, still on its baking paper, onto a baking sheet. 5. Repeat with remaining dough, re-rolling the trimmings, until you have two side walls, a front and back wall and two roof panels. 6. Any leftover dough can be cut into Christmas trees or stars. 7. Use butter icing as ‘glue’ to stick your house together. 8. Decorate approriately! Why not cut a whole as a door and put a candel inside. 9. Sprinkle icing sugar over your finished house. 10. Enjoy!