How to make easy gingerbread for Halloween in six steps

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The finished biscuits (Picture: Carr’s Flour)

You might think gingerbread is just for Christmas but with some decorative twists, it’s perfect to make with kids for Halloween too.

You can used traditional gingerbread people cutters and just round shapes, but decorate with skeletons and spider webs instead, or add some white teeth to the face to create Dracula biscuits.

This recipe, from Carr’s Flour, is really easy with just six steps and the ingredients are hopefully things you have in the storecupboard.

Ingredients

• 175g dark muscovado sugar
• 85g golden syrup
• 100g butter
• 3 tsp ground ginger
• ½ tsp mixed spice
• 350g plain flour (plus extra for dusting)
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 egg (lightly beaten)
• Icing pens or an icing bag and icing sugar
• Any gory or goolish decorations!

Method

1. Over a low heat, melt the sugar, golden syrup and butter in a small pan. Set to one side, then in a large bowl, mix the spices and flour together. Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in 1tsp of cold water. Make a well in the flour and tip in the melted butter mixture, the bicarbonate and the egg. Stir well until all the ingredients are combined and create a smooth dough.
2. When cool, wrap in cling film and put in the fridge to cool for around an hour or until firm enough to roll out.
3. Preheat the oven to 190˚C (170˚C Fan, Gas Mark 5). Lightly sprinkle flour onto a clean work surface and knead the dough for a few seconds. Cut the dough into two pieces and roll out one half until aprox.3-5mm thick.
4. Cut out your chosen shapes using cookie cutters and lay onto a lightly greased baking tray. Make sure you leave room for your biscuits to grow in size! When all the dough is used up, repeat with the remaining dough or keep in the fridge for upto a week.
5. Bake for 12-15mins or until they are a dark golden colour.
6. Transfer to a cooling rack to harden up before decorating. Decorate with icing as we have or let your imagination run wild with spooky ideas!

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