Christmas is just days away! And so, if you’re in need of a last minute really quick and really easy gingerbread man recipe, look no further!
My friends and I had wanted to make some gingerbread men but almost all the recipes we found on the internet required freezing the dough for an hour at least. We had time constraints though and it seemed like we were gonna scrap the whole gingerbread men baking activity. That is until we found this idiot-proof recipe we got off Malaysian Women’s Weekly (Dec issue) courtesy of Panasonic.
How easy is it? First – you don’t need a mixer! And second – you don’t even need a fancy oven! A microwave/convection oven would do!
PS: We baked these at 10pm at night and finished everything (including decorating which took up a major portion of the time and cleaning up) just slightly before midnite. Pretty quick no?
So what ya waiting for? Get the recipe after the jump…
Easy Peasy Idiot Proof Gingerbread Man Recipe (adapted from Malaysian Women’s Weekly Dec Issue, courtesy of Panasonic)
Ingredients:
176g All purpose flour
1/4 tsp soda bicarbonate
Pinch of salt
2 tsps ground ginger (we added 3)
1 tsp ground cinnamon
66g unsalted cold butter cut into pieces
76g brown sugar
1 tbsp golden syrup
1 tbsp treacle (we didn’t have this so we just added 2 tbsp of golden syrup instead)
1/2 tbsp milk (we didn’t have this either so we used water)
1 egg yolk, beaten
Directions:
1. Preheat microwave oven on Convection mode to 180degrees Celcius (or check what mode your microwave oven should be on for baking cookies)
2. Sift together all the dry ingredients (flour, soda bicarbonate, salt, sugar, ground ginger and ground cinnamon) in a large bowl. (We didn’t even sift, just used a spoon to mix everything up)
Rubbing in the butter (and no, those dainty fingers don’t belong to me)
3. Using your fingers rub in the cubes of butter into the dry ingredients until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
4. Next, add in the liquids (golden syrup, treacle if using, milk and egg) and the brown sugar.
5. Knead lightly until a dough is formed.
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nice….. can do this with my gal…. she would be thrilled. Merry Christmas to you and your family!!!
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Ho Ho Ho, Gingerbread Man, Stollen, Minced Pies, Christmas Pudding…. are all here for you!
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
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Wow… into baking mood, uh?? Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!!
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wow so cute, we do think the same lol!
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Nice job! Merry Christmas to you!
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Nothing like the smell of gingerbread to remind one that Xmas is here…
Merry Xmas to you and your loved ones, and a Happy New Year!
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Merry Christmas to you!!!
Very cute creation you have..nice
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your family! I will bookmark this idiot-proof recipe. You girls are really very creative! Tks for sharing.
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this is just so cute! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas!
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Those cookies are so very cute! And this looks like a simple recipe, I must try it some day!
Wau, creative gingerbread man. You can finished it within 2 hours, that was fast!
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If i’m using an regular oven, what temperature should i set then?