Festive Gingerbread!

There's nothing quite like walking through the front door to meet the smell of freshly baked gingerbread at this time of year, and baking gingerbread is fun for everyone! Get your Christmas playlist on loud and get baking!

Ingredients:

• 350g plain flour (and extra for rolling out)
• 1tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 2 tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 125g butter
• 175g light brown soft sugar (I only had dark but it worked just as well!)
• 1 egg
• 4 tbsp golden syrup

1. Start by sifting together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, ginger and cinnamon and mix together.
2. Add the butter (in smaller chunks to make it easier) and rub in (use the tips of your fingers to mix in the butter with the dry ingredients) until the mix looks like fine breadcrumbs.
3. Stir in the sugar.
4. In a separate bowl, lightly beat your egg and golden syrup together, or at least attempt to, we all know how golden syrup can be hard to mix in! Add this to the rest of the mixture and combine them to get your dough.
5. Wrap this dough in clingfilm and put in the fridge for 10 minutes.
6. In this 10 minutes, preheat your oven to 180 degrees and line your baking trays with greaseproof paper.
7. Take your dough out of the fridge and onto a floured surface, roll it out. Use whatever shape cookie cutters you can find or go crazy and make freehand shapes and place on a baking tray (not too close together!). 
8.  Bake these for 12-15 minutes (or until golden brown) whilst dancing around the kitchen to various christmas songs you know every word to;)
9. Once the gingerbread has cooked, leave them to cool before decorating!

I hope you enjoyed this little baking post! Gingerbread is so easy and fun to bake and everyone enjoys it!

If you make any gingerbread don't forget to tweet me a photo or tag me in a photo on instagram (both @_emma__c), I'd love to see your  bakes!

Lots of love (and festive cheer!),

Emma xxx