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Gingerbread people

Ingredients

· 300 g plain flour

· 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

· 2 teaspoons ground ginger

· 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

· 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg

· 125 g unsalted butter

· 100 g soft light brown sugar

· 3 tablespoons golden syrup

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC/gas 4 and line 2 baking sheets with baking paper. In a large bowl combine the flour, bicarbonate of soda and the spices.

2. Melt the butter, sugar and golden syrup in a pan over a low heat and stir until the sugar dissolves, then add it to the dry ingredients. Stir in until it forms a stiff dough, then cut it in half.

3. Transfer the paper from the baking sheets to a work surface and place a portion of the dough on each. Roll out to 5mm thick, then cut out directly on the paper, leaving a 2cm gap between each. Save the cuttings to make more people, or round ginger biscuits.

4. Carefully lift the papers back onto the baking sheets and bake the gingerbread in the oven for about 12 minutes, or until lightly golden.

5. Leave to cool on the sheet for a few minutes – if you want to hang them as decorations, now is the time to pierce a hole through the top of each with a skewer – then move to a wire rack.

6. Once cool, ice the gingerbread men and decorate with sprinkles, sweets and edible glitter.

SPECIAL PERSON

How to Fold a DIY Corner Bookmark

You will need a sheet of paper (preferably origami paper), scissors and decorations and glue to make the monster or any other creature your heart desires.

Start by folding the paper in half .

Fold the left and right corner to the centre point. Cut off the excess part and cut through the middle so that you get two triangles.

Unfold them – you’ve gotten yourself two squares that will soon turn into two monster bookmarks!

Fold the square in half – you’ll get a rectangle – fold in half again and you’ll get a smaller square. Unfold it.

As you’ve unfolded the small square you’ll see 4 small squares inside the unfolded square – cut one out as shown on the picture bellow.

Now cut the adjacent two squares from the one you’ve cut out as shown on the picture (diagonally through the square).

Fold the little triangles inward – apply some glue to the inner one and you’re done!

Well - all that’s left to do is to cut some eyes, tongues, teeth, tentacles, horns…

And glue them onto your monster!