Baking | Halloween Gingerbread Biscuits

I thought I would do something a little different for my blog today, and post a baking recipe. I have always loved baking, as I find it so relaxing and calming on a Sunday afternoon, whipping up a delicious weekend treat. One of my favourite things to bake at this time of year is gingerbread, as it tastes like Autumn in a biscuit-what could be better? Making it more seasonally appropriate, here's how I make Halloween gingerbread biscuits...

Ingredients

115g butter

450g plain flour

2 tsp. ground ginger

1 tsp. ground mixed spice

2 tsp. bicarbonate of soda

100g golden syrup

115g light muscovado sugar

1 egg, lightly beaten

Icing and decorations of your choice

To start with, you will need to preheat your oven to 160 degrees Celsius/325 degrees Fahrenheit/Gas mark 3, and then grease 3 large baking sheets.

Next, sift the flour, ginger, mixed spice and bicarbonate of soda into a large bowl.

 Then, place the butter, golden syrup and muscovado sugar in a saucepan over a low heat and stir together until melted. Pour this melted mixture onto the dry ingredients in the bowl and add in the egg.

 

 Mix this together to form a dough, which will be sticky to start with, but will become firmer as it cools. 

 Roll out the dough on a floured surface to about 3mm thickness, and use any cutters to cut out whichever shapes you like. I have gone for typical Halloween shapes, such as a bat, pumpkin, and ghost. 

 Once cut out, place the shapes on the baking sheets, and bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes, or until firm and lightly brown. Leave to cool for a few minutes on the baking sheets, before transferring the biscuits to a wire rack to cool completely. 

 Once cool, decorate the biscuits however you like. I have gone for white, orange and black icing as these are typical Halloween colours. 

 After they are decorated they can finally be eaten (the best part in my opinion!)



I hope you have as much fun making these as I did, as I think these are the perfect treats for Halloween.

What is your favourite thing to eat at Halloween?

Megan x