How to make a Gingerbread man
Ingredients:
Plain flour 350, 
bicarbonate soda 1 teasp
ground ginger 2 teasp
butter 100g
light brown sugar 175g
golden syrup 4 tablespoon
1 egg beaten

Method:
Mix all the dry ingredients with butter to make it into bread crumbs( use your fingers).
Then put in the wet ingredients and mix it all up into a dough.
Knead and roll out all of the dough to 3mm thick
After that use cutters to make the ginger bread men or women .
Bake in the oven for 12-15 mins at 170c.Take out the men  and let them cool.
When theve cooled down decorate them with choclate,buttions and icing.
Then you can eat them.

tip: cut out different shapes from same dough e.g Christmas Tree, Bell, star...

I hope yours does not run away!!!
By Jack Cullinan and Jamie Wynne