Gingerbread Biscuits

Ingredients:

• 75g butter
• 3 ½ tbsp golden syrup
• 60g soft light brown sugar
• 175g plain flour
• ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 2 tsp ground ginger

Here's what to do:

1. Add butter, golden syrup and light brown sugar to a pan. Stir on a low heat until sugar has dissolved.
2. Add flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger to a mixing bowl then stir together. Make a well in the centre and pour in the sugar and butter mixture.
3. Stir together to form a dough (or use your hands).
4. Wrap in cling film and let chill for 30 minutes to firm up.
5. Lay the dough between two sheets of baking parchment. Press dough lightly with a rolling pin. Give a quarter turn than repeat.
6. Give it a final quarter turn, then start to roll backwards and forwards, giving regular quarter turns. Until dough is roughly thickness of a $1 coin.
7. Using a biscuit cutter to cut out the shapes.
8. Bake at 190°C for 10 to 12 minutes, until lightly golden brown.
9. The biscuits won't be firm but will harden when left to cool outside the oven.
10. Decorate with piped icing (optional).

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