Katie Larmour Linen

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Come Make Gingerbread with Us

Hi, 

We have dozens of designs for you to choose from but our gingerbread man has been a family and customer favourite for a couple of years now. We keep things fresh by constantly releasing new batches (excuse the pun) of the little cutie in different colour-ways and fabrics. My eldest, but but still teeny, son’s absolute favourite tv programme to watch is the BBC’s Philharmonic Musical Story of the Gingerbread Man by the wonderful and captivating voice of narrator Nihal Arthanayake. You can only imagine his delight when I announced we were making our very own gingerbread people last weekend. In fact it extended to stars and dinosaurs for good measure - some of his other favourite things right now. His only disappointment was that none jumped out of the oven. We’d like to share a selection of our goodies that you can purchase for the tree below and also a little recipe.

Happy baking!

Katie xo

Ingredients:

  • 350g/12oz plain flour

  • 1 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda

  • 3 teaspoons ground ginger

  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

  • 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

  • 125g unsalted butter cut up into cubes

  • 150g soft brown sugar

  • 2 tablespoons golden syrup

  • 1 tablespoon black treacle


Method:

  1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC 

  2. Get your baking paper ready 

  3. Sift your flour into a big bowl 

  4. Add in the bicarbonate of soda and the spices and mix through

  5. Separately melt the butter in a saucepan with a low heat and then add and stir in the sugar and golden syrup 

  6. add this all to the dry ingredients

  7. Stir together to get a stiff dough and leave to sit for 20 mins

  8. Roll the dough out to a couple of mm thick on a flour dusted surface or directly on to greaseproof paper then use your favourite cutter shapes

  9. We squished any leftover bits into the stars

  10. Put in the oven for about 10-15 mins, start checking after 10

  11. When golden brown take out and place on a cooling rack

  12. In a mo you can do the best bit - decorate!

The image with the stripes background is credited to inklover shop in Northern Ireland and taken by Native Ivy photography.