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  • Makes 20
  • Difficulty Medium
  • 11 Ingredients
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You can pipe whatever face or body design you prefer onto the biscuit. Also you can add mini m and m's as eyes or buttons etc.


Ingredients (makes 20 biscuits)

  • 125 g butter
  • 1/4 cup dark brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup treacle
  • 1 egg
  • 21/2 cups plain flour
  • 1 tabs ground ginger
  • 1 teas mixed spice
  • 1 teas bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 egg white
  • 2 cups pure icing sugar
  • assorted food colours

Method

  1. Beat butter, dark brown sugar and treacle until light and creamy. Add egg, beat well.
  2. Sift four, spices, bicarbonate of soda into creamed mixture, mix until just combined.
  3. turn onto floured surface, knead 1 min, adding a little extra flour if dough is sticky. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate 30 mins or until firm.
  4. preheat oven to 180 C. Rollout dough on lightly floured surface to 4mm thick. Using gingerbread cutters, cut gingerbread shapes from dough. Place shapes on baking trays, lined with baking paper, allow room to spread. Bake 10-12 mins, Cool.
  5. ICING: Beat egg white until frothy, Gradually add pure icing sugar, beating well after each addition. Continue until icing is firm and holds its shape.
  6. Divide mixture into portions and tint with colours as desired, mix well. Pipe onto biscuits decoratively. Allow icing to dry. Store biscuits in an airtight container.

Notes

Biscuits can be stored in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks. That is, if they are not eaten before that!

  • Aww these are super cute! I love gingerbread men and we often make them at Christmas and the kids have so much fun decorating them but these skeleton ones would be absolutely perfect for Halloween. Will definitely be keeping this recipe aside to add to my Halloween recipes. Thank you 🙂

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  • Love gingerbread people for Christmas time – pretty sure we eat our weight in gingerbread! 🙂

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  • Your gingerbread men look great,thanks so much!

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  • so cool for hallowein

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  • These look yummy! Thanks for sharing.

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  • i love how you can have fun decorating these with the kids. great bonding time

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  • what a cool idea for halloween

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  • what a great idea for up coming Halloween parties

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  • Great looking gingerbread men. Thanks

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  • they look so good, great idea, thanks for sharing

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  • What a cute twist on the traditional gingerbread man.

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  • very clever and they look fantastic

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  • How cool is this! A great idea for Halloween.

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  • My daughter is currently studying anatomy in science and wants to take these biscuits into her class.

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  • great for the Halloween treats

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  • love the different ways of decorating

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  • Home-made gingerbread is just the best! If I can find my biscuit cutters, I’ll be making these this weekend.

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  • Thankyou for sharing.

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  • These look so cute! Thanks for sharing 🙂

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  • omg these are soooo cute

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