How to cook

• Melt the butter, in a pan and add the sugar and syrup

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• Mix flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger in a separate bowl

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• Stir together to make a stiff dough

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• roll out dough to the thickness of 2 x £1 coins

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• cut out house template on greaseproof paper (see pdf link above for template)

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• Cut out 4 walls and roof from the gingerbread dough and place on greaseproof paper​

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• Put coloured boiled sweets in the holes made for windows 

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• Bake for 12 mins a 200 oC or until a little darker at the edges

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• When cooled, stick together with icing sugar and decorate

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