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Home » Gingerbread Christmas Decorations

Gingerbread Christmas Decorations

November 14, 2012 by admin 16 Comments

Welcome to week 3 of Counting Down to Christmas.

I wanted to make some home made presents this year, and I know I would love to be given a little bag of biscuits or a tree decoration, so we had a practice. We have tried LOTS of recipes lately and fiddled around with them, but finally settled on this one. It is amazing!

Ingredients

  • 75g brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoon golden syrup
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • I tablespoon treacle
  • 95g butter
  • 225g plain flour
  • half a teaspoon of bicarb of soda
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Decoration

Icing pens and little gold balls, or whatever you fancy really.

Instructions

  • Put the sugar, syrup, treacle ginger and cinnamon in a pan and bring to the boil, with 1 table spoon of water.
  • Remove from the heat and add the butter.
  • Stir in the flour slowly and knead until you have a nice smooth dough.
  • Cover it up and leave somewhere cool for half an hour.
  • Roll out the dough and use cookie cutters to make Christmas shapes. We used a straw to make holes at the top to thread the ribbon through later.
  • Bake for 10-15 minutes at 180 degrees.
  • Decorate as you wish.

This is a blog hop, we’d love to see what decorations you’ve made, so please link up below.



Don’t forget to check out the other cohosts projects too.

Rainy Day Mum ~ Mummy Mummy Mum! ~ Life at the Zoo ~ The Fairy and The Frog~ Jennifer’s Little World ~ Making Boys Men ~ The Boy and Me ~ Mama Pea Pod

Don’t forget to check out week 1 and week 2 for more Christmas inspiration.

Also linked to Festive Friday.

Filed Under: Family Fun Tagged With: Christmas gingerbread, gingerbread christmas decorations, homemade christmas

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Comments

  1. becca

    November 14, 2012 at 7:39 pm

    these look lovely. i like your recipe. very organised to be making them in November! i’m hoping to try Salt dough tree decorations. B

    Reply
  2. Susan Mann

    November 14, 2012 at 7:58 pm

    Those look fab x

    Reply
  3. TheBoyandMe

    November 14, 2012 at 11:46 pm

    These look so fantastic, I must try making gingerbread with The Boy this year, he’ll love it.

    Reply
  4. Molly @Mother's Always Right

    November 15, 2012 at 7:39 pm

    Tasty? Check. Pretty? Check. Easy? Check. *Runs off to add to list of many things to do for Christmas*

    Reply
    • admin

      November 15, 2012 at 8:42 pm

      Ha ha, they were easy..but messy 🙂

      Reply
  5. Galina

    November 16, 2012 at 8:45 am

    Lovely! I’ll bake some closer to Christmas, as they won’t last before then, if I make any now.

    Reply
    • admin

      November 16, 2012 at 2:02 pm

      Yes, we are a little early!

      Reply
  6. Chris at Thinly Spread

    November 16, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    There is nothing quite so satisfying as a gingerbread decoration and their little faces are SO sweet! Thanks so much for linking this to Festive Friday! x

    Reply
    • admin

      November 16, 2012 at 3:51 pm

      always a pleasure 🙂

      Reply
  7. crafts on sea

    November 16, 2012 at 7:30 pm

    These look fab! Going to pin the pics of the decorations so I remember to make them 🙂

    Reply
    • admin

      November 16, 2012 at 7:42 pm

      Thank you. x

      Reply
  8. Coombemill - Fiona

    December 9, 2012 at 1:10 am

    Great idea to hang them on the tree!

    Reply
  9. Pinkoddy

    December 20, 2012 at 3:42 pm

    That look lovely and like they had a lot of fun.

    Reply

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