Ready for some Christmas baking fun? Here's a lovely recipe to make delicious Gingerbread Cookies together with your little ones!
Put on your aprons, get your ingredients ready and let the fun begin!
A little reminder: Always ask a grown-up helper to supervise you when using the oven or handling hot ingredients.
🥣 Ingredients
50g butter or hard block margarine
50g golden caster sugar
100g golden syrup
1 heaped teaspoon ground ginger
200g self-raising flour
🍬 Time to Decorate!
Get creative with your favourite toppings!
Icing pens
Chocolate buttons
Almonds
Desiccated coconut
Hazelnuts
👩🍳 Let's Get Baking!
1. Get the oven ready!
Ask your grown-up helper to preheat the oven to 180°C / 350°F / Gas Mark 4.
2. Melt and mix.
Put the butter, sugar and golden syrup into a saucepan. Heat gently until the sugar has dissolved. Be careful not to let the mixture boil!
3. Make the dough.
Remove the saucepan from the heat. Add the flour and ground ginger, stirring until you get a smooth, firm and manageable dough.
4. Let it cool.
Transfer the dough to a bowl and leave it to cool for about 30 minutes.
5. Prepare your baking tray.
Meanwhile, lightly grease a baking tray or line it with baking paper.
6. Roll it out!
Sprinkle a little flour onto your work surface. Roll out the cooled dough until it is about ½ cm thick.
7. Cut out your gingerbread people!
Use your favourite cookie cutters to cut out gingerbread men, stars, hearts or any other fun shapes.
No cookie cutters? No problem! You can make your own cardboard templates and carefully cut around them.
Gently lift your biscuits with a palette knife and place them on the prepared baking tray.
8. Into the oven!
Ask your grown-up helper to bake your biscuits for about 10 minutes, until they are golden and slightly risen.
9. Cool them down.
Remove the tray from the oven and leave the biscuits to cool on the tray for 5 minutes. Then carefully transfer them to a cooling rack.
🎨 The Best Part: Decorating Time!
Once your gingerbread cookies are completely cool, let your imagination run wild!
Use icing pens, chocolate buttons, almonds, coconut and hazelnuts to give each gingerbread character its own personality.
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🍪 And now...Let's Work with the recipe at school!
Here are some fun and easy ideas to turn this recipe into engaging English activities!
1. Put the Steps in Order! – Cut out the recipe instructions and put them in the correct order.
2. Read & Draw! – Read each step and draw what happens. Create a six-picture recipe storyboard.
3. Ingredients Detective! – Read the recipe and find all the ingredients. Match each one to its picture.
4. True or False? – Read some sentences about the recipe and decide whether they are true or false.
5. What Comes Next? – Read a step and choose or describe what happens next.
6. Recipe Vocabulary – Match cooking verbs to pictures: melt, mix, stir, roll, cut, bake and decorate.
7. Let's Retell the Recipe! – Use the pictures to explain how to make Gingerbread Cookies, using First, Then, Next, After that and Finally.
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Will you make a Gingerbread Daddy, a Gingerbread Mummy or a whole Gingerbread Family?
Be creative, be careful and, most importantly, have fun!
Happy baking! ❤️
More posts about the Gingerbread man here, here and here
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