Gingerbread Men

• Vegan and gluten-free.
• A fantastic recipe to make with the kids.
• A soft and moist gingerbread.
• Decorate with your favourite design.

Dove's Farm Gluten Free Self-Raising White Flour 1kg

360g Self Raising Flour

Orgran No Egg 200g - Natural Egg Replacer

1 tsp No Egg Egg replacer

Virgin Coconut Oil, Organic 800g (Biona)

20g Melted Coconut Oil

Baking Powder, Gluten-Free 100g (Barkat)

1 tsp Baking Powder

Bicarbonate Of Soda 100g (Sussex Wholefoods)

1 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda

Organic Coconut Sugar (1kg) - Sussex Wholefoods

100g Coconut Sugar

Organic Ginger Powder 100g (Sussex Wholefoods)

3 tbsp Ginger Powder

Organic Ceylon Cinnamon Powder (100g) - Sussex Wholefoods

2 tsp Cinnamon Powder

Ground Cloves 50g (Hampshire Foods)

½ tsp Ground Cloves

Whole Nutmeg 50g (Hampshire Foods)

1 tsp Freshly Grated Nutmeg

Blackstrap Molasses, Organic 350g (Meridian)

140g Blackstrap Molasses

Pure Vanilla Extract 60ml (Nielsen Massey)

2 tsp Vanilla Extract

Profusion Himalayan Rose Pink Salt - fine 500g

1 tsp Himalayan Pink Salt

Other Ingredients

• 80g vegan butter/margarine
• Icing pens to decorate, along with your favourite edible decorations.

Method

1. Preheat the oven to gas mark 5. Line a baking tray with baking parchment.
2. Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt, ginger powder, ground cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and baking powder into a bowl. Set aside for later.
3. In an electric mixer, beat together the vegan butter, coconut oil, coconut sugar and vanilla extract.
4. Set the mixer to a medium speed and add the egg replacer, followed by one tablespoon of the flour mixture.
5. With the mixer still running, add the molasses and the vanilla extract.
6. Gradually add the flour mixture, until you have a reasonably stiff dough.
7. Wrap the dough in clingfilm and refrigerate overnight.
8. When you are ready to use the dough, lightly flour a work surface and remove the dough from the fridge.
9. Roll out the dough until it reaches a 1cm thickness. Cut out as many gingerbread men shapes as you can. Place on the prepared baking tray and bake for about 8 minutes.
10. Allow to cool on the baking tray for a minute or two, before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. When cool, ice on your own design with your favourite coloured icing.