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Sieve flour and bread soda into a bowl. Add ginger and cinnamon. Mix well.
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Put the mix into a food processor and add margarine, pulse until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. If you don’t have a food processor, rub in the margarine using your fingers until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Note: If your food processor is just 1 litre capacity like mine, then do this in two halves and mix together in large bowl after.
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Stir in sugar.
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Beat egg, mix with golden syrup and add to dry mixture. Mix until it resembles a firm dough.
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Turn out onto a floured board and knead for 2-3 minutes
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Cover with cling film and place in the fridge for 30 minutes.
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Heat oven to 180C/170C Fan Oven and line two baking trays with baking paper.
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If you’re letting children help, give them a portion of dough each to work with. Roll out gingerbread dough to 0.5 cm thickness.
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Put a tablespoon of flour on a plate.Dip cookie cutters into flour before cutting each shape, this will make it easier to remove shape from cutter. Cut out shapes as desired, we made stars, Christmas trees and mini gingerbread men.
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Place in the oven for 10-12 minutes. Allow to cool for 10 minutes before putting out on wire rack to finish cooling.
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Decorate with writing icing and silver balls or with dairy free melted chocolate and desiccated coconut or lemon icing and writing icing.