Your gingerbread man
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Tips for baking and icing real gingerbread
- Chill the dough for at least an hour before rolling – cold dough keeps its shape in the oven.
- Roll the dough out evenly, about 5 mm thick, so every cookie bakes the same.
- Bake until the edges just start to darken – ask a grown-up to take the hot tray out of the oven.
- Let the cookies cool completely before icing them, or the icing melts and runs.
- For thick icing mix powdered sugar with a little egg white or lemon juice, then pipe it from a piping bag or a freezer bag with a tiny corner cut off.
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