I was delighted to be asked by Oven Pride to take part in their pride of Oven Pride competition. Those that know me well will know this house has enthusiasm in bucket loads and skill in thimbles when it comes to cooking but we do love to try.
Oven Pride sent us a pack of goodies and a recipe card and basically let us get on with choosing what we wished to make. Self appointed chef 1 (Annalise age d6) overruled my desire to make regular bread and declared traditional gingerbread had a nicer smell.
So there you go. Chef 2 (that’s me) had been told.
I tried to let Chef 1 do as much as possible ( I just did the hot bits and helped with measuring and rolling.)
Ingredients
2 tbsp of golden syrup
60g caster sugar
50g butter
3 tbsp double cream
1/2 tsp ground ginger and 1/2 tsp cinnamon
175g plain flour
1/2 tsp of bicarb of soda
packet of smarties (EXTREMELY IMPORTANT says chef 1)
Method
You simply heat syrup sugar and butter till sugar dissolves .
Remove from heat, add cream and spice.
Add flour and bicarb. till you have a smooth mix.
Tip the mix onto parchment paper laid out on baking tray. Put another piece of paper on top. Leave in fridge 2-3 hours.
Should now be a thick dough.
Now roll it between the papers with rolling pin till 1 cm thick
then slide onto floury surface and roll till 5mm thick,
Cut out desired shapes an cook in an oven on medium heat for about 8 mins till golden brown.
(We added some smarties before cooking)
Chef 1 says it is essential to eat these whilst they are still a bit warm with a glass of milk in your pjs.
Our creative slant was to add smarties..not rocket science but delicious and the milk and pjs were inspired.
Then when it’s all done time for a quick munch before we get cleared up.
This is when we need the Oven Pride Pack. Do you want to see how Oven Pride works….
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