So today we went to Waterstones and I finished my Christmas shopping, we had a rash scare from Theo but the doctor reassured us it was a common rash and he is now on antibiotic cream. So hopefully it goes away in a few days and isn’t causing him discomfort.
I wanted to relax this evening so I made the dough during Theo’s morning nap today and just left it to chill in the fridge. I’ve never made gingerbread before as I always thought it would be difficult considering I am a complete novice at most baking and cooking it wasn’t too hard.
The recipe I followed is this here, the only fault I made was when I did two batches I changed places on where I put the oven rack and the second lot didn’t rise so bear that in mind when placing it in the oven.
Recipe:
- 100g Salted butter
- 3tbsp Golden Syrup
- 100g Dark Sugar
- 1/2 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
- 1tbsp Ground Ginger
- 1tsp Ground Cinnamon
- 225g Plain Flour
- 50g Icing Sugar
This was a relatively easy recipe to put together thankfully and I’m looking forward to icing them with Theo tomorrow. My only comment on the recipe is that I would use less ginger and more cinnamon, as it isn’t very sweet however that may change when you ice them and with personal preference.
I think this is going to be one of my new Christmas traditions to start as a family, I’ll hopefully perfect the recipe by next year. I had a lot of fun doing this and the components weren’t hard to make and follow. I’m really glad I left the dough in the fridge for a few hours as it made it solid whereas when I put it in the fridge it was too soft to roll.
Let me know what your favourite Christmas baking is and what you’re looking forward to this Christmas.
Check out my previous Christmas Baking post here.