Gingerbread Decorations

As you may have guessed, most of my recent crafting endeavors have been for people's Christmas presents. Therefore, I won't be blogging about them quite yet!
However, today we put up out Christmas Tree (quite late, I know!).. so I made some yummy & pretty Gingerbread Tree Decorations:

How to make them:
Ingredients:
350g plain flour
175g soft brown sugar
1 1/2 tsps ground ginger
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
4 tbsps golden syrup
175g butter (leave out of the fridge to soften)
1 egg
Writing Icing
Sweets to decorate
Ridiculous amounts of  flour to stop the dough sticking!!!
String

Recipe:
1. Breadcrumb the butter, ginger, flour & bicarbonate of soda until crumbly.
2. Mix in the egg, golden syrup & sugar until a firm dough.
3. Refrigeration for 20 minutes.
4. Preheat the oven at 180 degrees & pour flour oven baking trays.
5. Using a rolling pin (covered in flour on a flour covered surface!), roll out the dough until about 3cm thick.
6. Cut gingerbread men shapes, pierce a hole at the top (for the string), put on oven trays & cook for 10 minutes (until golden brown)
7. Place gingerbread on cooling rack & wait until cooled.
8. Decorate the gingerbread with writing icing & sweets (use the icing to stick to sweets on).
9. Tied string through the hole of the gingerbread.
10. Place on tree & feel proud.

:) Christmas is getting near... xxx