HoHoHo Elf Bunting
About the bunting
Spice up your home this Christmas with some homemade gingerbread bunting, Elf style! This is so simple to make, fun to decorate and will make your home look and smell really festive - what's not to love?
Method
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C, gas mark 4). Line a couple of baking sheets with baking parchment.
Step 2
Sieve the flour, ginger, bicarbonate of soda and butter into a large bowl and using your fingertips rub the butter into the dry ingredients until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the sugar and stir in.
Step 3
Whisk the beaten egg and golden syrup together then add this to the bowl and mix to form a dough.
Ingredients for this step
- Free range large egg(s) (1)
- Silver Spoon Golden Syrup (4 tbsp)
Step 4
Lightly flour the work surface then roll out the dough until it is 3-4mm thick, then cut triangles approximately 10cm in size, and carefully transfer onto the baking sheet.
Step 5
Use a skewer or the pointy end of a teaspoon to make holes where you will thread the string or ribbon. Bake in the oven for about 10 minutes until golden brown.
Step 6
Remove from the oven and leave to cool for a few minutes then transfer onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Step 7
To decorate roll out some white, red and green icing and using cutters cut out your chosen shapes. Brush the gingerbread triangle with warmed apricot jam and stick the icing decoration to the triangle.
Ingredients for this step
- Sugar paste icing (white, red or green) (150g)
- Apricot jam (melted) (4 tbsp)
Step 8
Leave to set and dry for about 1 hour before threading the ribbon or string through so you can hang up your festive bunting.
Ingredients
For the Biscuits
- 350gAllinson's Plain White Flour
- 1 tspGround ginger
- 1 tspBicarbonate of soda
- 100gUnsalted butter (softened)
- 150gBillington's Unrefined Light Muscovado Sugar
- 1Free range large egg(s)
- 4 tbspSilver Spoon Golden Syrup
For the Decoration
- 150gSugar paste icing (white, red or green)
- 4 tbspApricot jam (melted)
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