Hey guys I thought I would try something different, so this is how you make gingerbread cookies. Ingredients- 1/2 a cup of butter - 1/2 a cup of brown sugar - 1/2 a cup of golden syrup - 1 egg (separated) - 2 and a 1/2 cups of plain flour - 1 tablespoon of ground ginger - 1 teaspoon of mixed spice - 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda - Icing Sugar -Food Colouring -Sprinkles and other stuff to decorate. MethodStep 1 Preheat the oven to 180' Celcius. Step 2 Using an electric mixer, mix the butter (1/2 cup) and the brown sugar (1/2 cup) together, until it looks pale and creamy. Step 3 Add in the golden syrup (1/2 cup) and an egg yolk into the mix. Mix until combined. Step 4 Now stir in the flour (2 1/2 cups) , ginger (1 tablespoon), mixed spice(1 teaspoon) and bicarbonate of soda (1 teaspoon). Don't use the electric mixer for this part. Step 5 Make sure you knead the dough for a bit to make sure everything is combined. It might seem that it won't work, but you just have to stay with it. You can leave it in the fridge for 30 minutes, but I decided not to. Step 6 Now is the fun part. Roll out half your dough on a floured surface with a rolling pin. Then use cookie cutters to cut out some shapes. Step 7 Now you want to measure out your gingerbread house. You will need seven squares and I decided to do 5cm x 5cm for them. Cut one of the squares in half to make triangles for the roof. Step 8 Once you have all your shapes cut out, put them in the oven for 10 minutes. When they finish turn off the oven and leave them in there to harden. Then take them out and put them on a cooling rack and wait for them to completely dry before putting the icing on them. Step 8 Now we are going to make the icing. Get the left over egg white from before and about a cup or so of icing sugar into an electric mixer, and mix until combined. Step 9 Get a cup and a zip lock bag and place the bag into the cup. Then put the icing into the cup. Step 10 Cut a small hole in the end of the icing bag. Now you can start to decorate and put together your gingerbread house. I decorated everything with some coloured icing before I started to join it together, but I recommend doing this after you have assembled the house. Step 11 Now you want to stick two of the sides together with icing. This is quite hard to do, so when you have balanced the two sides, put it into the fridge for at least 15 minutes to harden the icing. Step 12 After taking your house after the fridge, you now need to attach one or both of the other sides. This could take some time, but it will be worth it. Then after you have balanced them, you should put it all back into the fridge. Step 13 Now that you have all the sides connected you can start to connect the roof. So first you want to connect the triangles. I couldn't do this because I didn't leave the house in the fridge for long enough. So once you connect the triangles, put it in the fridge again. If you can't connect the triangles, then you can just put one of the roof pieces on top of the house. Step 14 So once you have the triangles connected now you want to connect the roof pieces to the triangles. So just put some icing on the edges and place on the roof pieces. I don't have any photos of this because I didn't do this. Step 15 Now you can put white icing all over the house, like I did, to give a snowed on look. Hope you guys enjoyed this, even though my ginger bread house didn't turn out very good, but that's okay. :)
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