Have some fun in the kitchen and make yourself some gingerbread men for friends. Prep time is only 15m with 10m cooking time and makes about 20-30 men depending on cutter size. Here’s the recipe:

Ingredients

• 125g bugger
• 1/2 cup golden syrup
• 1/2 cup lightly packed brown sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 tablespoon ground ginger
• 2 teaspoons mixed spice
• 1 teaspoon bicarb of soda
• 2 1/2 cups self raising flour
• Decorating pens or icing
• Go to second hand shop and buy a cookie cutter of some sort.

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 170C
2. Combine butter, syrup and brown sugar in a small pan and melt. Remove to a bowl and cool. Stir in egg yolk and remaining dry ingredients to form a soft dough. Turn out into plastic wrap and press into a flat disc. Rest in fridge for 1 hour to firm up.
3. Roll dough to 7mm thick and cut gingerbread men or other shapes.
4. Place on baking tray (with baking paper or greased with a little butter) and bake for 7-10 mins until firm.
5. When cool they can be decorated.

Note: I went crazy when I did mine and added chocolate chips and pecans as I didn’t have quite the right ingredients so if you’re creative, then be creative! P.S. If you do something creative with them after they’re made, you could probably use the photo as a Christmas Card print too!

P.S. You could swap your men for other food with friends, or take a photo like the one above and print it out  as a Christmas card front cover.