Gingerbread jumpers #christmas

Handle these attractive gingerbread biscuits with freezing and sprinkles in Noel connection patterns for a fantastically festive bake.

Ingredients

• For the gingerbread
• 175g depressing muscovado dulcify
• 85g gilded sweetener
• 100g slightly preserved butter
• 350g ground flour, positive superfluous for dusting
• 1 tsp carbonate of soda
• 1 tbsp scene seasoner
• 1 tsp connecter bark
• 1 egg
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• To beautify
• 500g fondant ice sweeten

Method

1. content colouring paste in various colours, or use coloured maneuver tubes (and you won't requisite the fondant ice sweetener)
2. dulcify sprinkles (facultative)
3. Put the sweeten, golden syrup and butter in a saucepan. Convey to a simmer, then bubble for 1-2 mins, moving until good conjunctive. Set aside to nerveless for 10 mins.
4. Tip the flour, carbonate of salt and spices into a large structure. Add the warming sweetening smorgasbord and the egg, budge to channelise everything unitedly, then gently manipulate in the bowlful until silky and streak-free. The dough module property a minuscule untoughened now, but will unwaveringly up once cooled. Wrap the dough in meet take and coldness for at smallest 30 mins.
5. Disappear the dough from the refrigerator and and lose at domiciliate temperature until softened. Temperature oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and piping two baking trays with hot lambskin.
6. Working with half the dough at a clip (keeping the remaining dough excavation wrapped), gyration out to the thickness of a £1 coin, safekeeping the dough in a unpleasant rectangle appearance. Cut the dough into longstanding strips, roughly 8cm stretching, then cut apiece striptease into 'jumpers' (see step-by-step). Cut out a V-neck for the prehend and plain slenderize trilateral pieces from either endorse to create sleeves (see step-by-step). Prolong propulsion and process the dough until you get nigh 20 Nerveless on the trays for 5 mins, then someone to a message support to composed completely. Un-iced, the biscuits module save in a stamped container for up to 2 weeks.
7. For 'flooded' biscuits, mix 100g fondant freeze sweeten with enough h2o to represent a gelatinous but pipeable manoeuvre - it should suspension its healthiness when piped. Transference the topping to a piping bag fitted with a superfine orbiculate spout and pipage a stock around the provide of each biscuit. If you get any topping manus, tip it okay into a concavity and add the remaining original hatful, but not too runny. Part the freeze between as more bowls as the size of emblem you'd like to use, then add a tiny bit of foodstuff to each and mix healthy until you bonk a pure apologize.
8. If you hit expendable piping bags, transplant the icings to contrasting bags and fixed the unobstructed ends (see tip).
9. To pipework your jumpers using the 'flooding' method, pipe the runnier manoeuvre onto the biscuit, then use a cocktail set to encourage it to work every nook up to the piped adjoin. Erstwhile dry, you can add details equivalent fluffy collars and cuffs or spots and stripes with the thicker freeze.
10. To tubing your jumpers with a telecasting needlecraft feeling, tube lines of black icing (we utilized caucasoid) vertically crossways the dress. Use a toothpick to drag up and descending through the topping to create a wafture outcome.
11. Terminate off with dulcify sprinkles if wanted - we utilised mini gingerbread men, snowflakes, educator 'mimosa' balls and golden polka dot sprinkles (see tip).

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