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Gingerbread Robot Recipe

Recipe Ingredients:

225g self-raising flour
100g brown soft brown sugar
75g of butter
1 teaspoon ginger powder
2 tablespoons of golden syrup
1 egg
Flat icing in blue, red, yellow and black (optional)
Icing pens (optional)


Recipe Directions:

1. Put the flour and the ginger into a large bowl then add the sugar. Add the butter and rub this into the mixture with your fingers to form fine breadcrumbs.

2. Beat up the egg in a cup with a fork and add two tablespoons of golden syrup to this.

3. Add this to the mixture, at first stirring together with a spoon, and then using your hands to form a stiff dough. It may be a bit crumbly at first.

4. Turn out onto the work-surface and knead so that it is mixed completely.

5. Ask a grown-up to preheat the oven to 170 Celsius/325F/ gas mark 3

6. Roll out the dough very thinly. Put a little flour on the top of the work surface to stop it sticking.

7. Using a round cutter cut two circles for hands. Then use two sizes of square cutters. Use the small one to cut the robot’s head out and the large one for the robot’s body. Then use a rectangular cutter to cut four shapes out for the robot’s arms and legs.

8. Place all of these pieces very carefully on a greased baking sheet. A fish slice will help with this.

9. Place in the oven for 15- 20 minutes and then leave to cool on a wire rack.

10. Roll out the icing and very thinly cut out shapes to decorate your robot with. Use icing pens to add decoration.