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Gingerbread Men

  • RECIPE MAKES: 4 gingerbread men
  • COOK TIME: 1 hr
Step 1

Preheat oven to 200°C/fan 180°C/gas mark 6.

Step 2

In a bowl, cream the butter and the sugar.

Step 3

Add the ginger, cinnamon and Fate Low Protein All-Purpose Mix and rub together with your fingertips to create a breadcrumb texture.

Step 4

In a separate bowl, mix together the ProZero, egg replacer, vanilla essence and golden syrup.

Step 5

Add this mixture to the Fate Low Protein All-Purpose breadcrumbs and knead into a dough.

Step 6

Roll dough to a thickness of 0.5cm, cut into 4 gingerbread men and place onto a lightly greased baking tray.

Step 7

If you would like your gingerbread men to hold a candy cane, roll up a small ball of tin foil, rub with the oil and place on the body of the gingerbread men.

Step 8

Fold the arms over the tin foil ball and press together.

Step 9

Cook for 20-25 mins.

Step 10

Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack.

Step 11

If necessary, remove the tin foil and replace with a candy cane.

Step 12

Draw the eyes, smile, buttons and cuffs on with the icing pens and serve.

Fate Low Protein All-Purpose Mix and ProZero are foods for special medical purposes and must be used under medical supervision.

  • 40g Butter, softened
  • 70g Demerara sugar
  • 1 tsp Ginger, ground
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon, ground
  • 140g Fate Low Protein All-Purpose Mix
  • 50ml ProZero
  • 1 tsp Egg replacer
  • ½ tsp Vanilla essence
  • 1 tbsp Golden syrup
  • Candy canes (optional)
  • 1 tsp Oil (optional)
  • Colourful Icing pens

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