Gingerbread Cookies

These are my favourite gingerbread cookies, great flavour, and not dark. Recipe makes around 50 small gingerbread men cookies.

125g unsalted butter

105g caster sugar

85g golden syrup

95g treacle

1 egg yolk

360g flour

1/2 tsp salt

3/4 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ground cloves

1 tsp ginger

1 tsp ground nutmeg

Cream butter and sugar

Add golden syrup, treacle, and egg yolk, and beat until combined.

Sift flower, salt, baking powder, baking soda,and spices

Add sifted ingredients to butter mixture and combine

Mould dough into flat disc shape, wrap in cling wrap and place in the fridge for 45 minutes

Preheat oven to 175 C

Roll dough on lightly floured surface to 4-5mm thickness and cut into desired shapes.

Bake for 13-15 minutes until golden, and slightly darker around the edges

Cool on a wire rack

Store for up to 2 weeks.

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