Little Ginger Man

Ginger Bread Man


Ingredients

3 cup whole meal plain flour
½ cup sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
1 tbsp ground ginger
2 tsp cocoa
½ tsp salt
1 tbsp warmed milk
½ cup melted butter
½ cup warmed treacle

Dissolve bicarbonate of soda in the warm milk and set aside. Cream butter and sugar; add bicarbonate of soda follow by milk and treacle. Add in flour, ginger, and cinnamon, cocoa and salt. Knead it into firm dough. May add little flour if abit sticky.

Divide dough into four portions. Roll dough in-between two grease paper with a rolling pin. Cut out biscuits with cookie cutter. Put on baking trays and bake in 180 c oven for 7 minutes. Remove and cool before placing in cookie tin.