Gingerbread Men - Real Recipes from Mums

my kids love decorating these gingerbread men and they are great for parties.

Ingredients (makes 12 )

75g Butter
75g Brown Sugar
75g Syrup
2tsp ginger powder
200g flour
1 Egg

Method

Melt Butter, sugar and syrup on low heat. Cool a little
Add everything to the butter mixture and Beat everything together
Knead lightly on a well floured surface to bind it all together. Then Roll out on floured surface.
Cutout shapes using cutter. Bake 180C or 12 minutes until it is lightly golden brown.
Cool on wire tray. Make icing with icing sugar and a little water mix to right consistency and decorate. roughly 2 heaped table spoons of sugar to 1-2 tsp water.

Notes

You could cut out round circles using a regular cookie cutter or shapes/animals/numbers if you have different shaped cutters. You could make patterns on the top with icing like stripes or dots. Let your creative side come out! you can also colour the icing with a few drops of food colouring to make festive ones too!

109 Comments

- - Mumof4 said
  - 20 Jun 2024
    6:39 pm
So cute! I’ll have to use this recipe at Christmas.

- - cassy26 said
  - 28 Jul 2022
    12:05 pm
These are great! We love decorating gingerbread men and do it every christmas and christmas in July as well.

- - mom325275 said
  - 28 Nov 2019
    12:11 pm
These look so cute for Christmas

- - Blossom said
  - 14 Sep 2019
    10:44 pm
It is hard to find good “wire” cooling trays / racks now. The “legs” of them don’t hold the “wire” up high enough.

- - happymum2018 said
  - 23 Dec 2018
    9:05 am
Wow thanks I love a simple gingerbread recipe thanks again

- - kjgarner said
  - 10 Jun 2018
    10:35 am
Another kids favourite, especially at Christmas time.

- - taynik46 said
  - 03 Jan 2018
    11:01 am
oh how sweet, these would be great as little gifts to fellow classmates – thank you for sharing your recipe and your sweet little men

- - maddisonmelkie@gmail.com said
  - 03 Dec 2017
    7:35 am
Thanks for this awesome recipe they look so cute.

- - mom112217 said
  - 31 Oct 2017
    6:46 pm
A delicious recipe perfect for this Christmas!

- - mom112023 said
  - 30 Apr 2017
    11:57 pm
I love gingerbread men. Thanks for this.

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 22 Jan 2017
    10:33 pm
kids would have fun decorating their own with different coloured icing too

- - mom19782016 said
  - 22 Jan 2016
    6:21 pm
Well I’d have to make a double batch of these!

- - mom62624 said
  - 15 Jan 2016
    7:37 am
Thanks for sharing; a great recipe and it’s wonderful getting the kids involved with the decorating too!.

- - dannsbuild said
  - 24 Sep 2015
    12:10 am
Great looking! A great looking recipe too! Thank you so much for sharing this!

- - Kell said
  - 21 Jun 2015
    10:13 am
Thanks for sharing this recipe; i love the one with glasses

- - mom93821 said
  - 12 Nov 2014
    5:47 am
Thanks again for sharing; made and had lots of fun! Yummy too!

- - mom94125 said
  - 10 Oct 2014
    3:30 pm
this is a less complicated recipe than what i use
- mom94125 replied
  
  16 Oct 2015 , 11:43 am
  cheers darl for posting this gingerbread man recipe idea. love it
- - shortaez said
  - 30 Sep 2014
    12:48 pm
I love ginger bread men thanks for sharing

- - mom93821 said
  - 28 Sep 2014
    6:12 pm
These look like fun to make.

- - love mum said
  - 02 Sep 2014
    11:09 am
fantastic. Im going to make shortbread one’s as my kids love but will take this design. thankyou