Recipe
Gingerbread
Recipe highlights
Total cooking time:
25 min
Category:
Low Protein Diet - Exchange value 0*
Servings:
10 biscuits or 8 gingebread
Ingredients**
100g butter
50g light muscovado sugar
150g Loprofin Mix plus extra for dusting
1 tbsp black treacle
1 tsp ground ginger
½ tsp Baking Powder
Method
- Place the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl and beat well.
- Stir in the Loprofin Mix, black treacle, ginger and baking powder to form a manageable dough (if necessary, add a small amount of water).
- Transfer the dough to a lightly dusted with Loprofin Mix and knead for approximately 30 seconds.
- Roll out the dough until its ½ cm thick and cut into circles (re-roll and lightly knead the trimmings to use the remaining dough).
- Transfer to a baking tray and bake in a 150oC preheated oven for 10-15 minutes or until they are a pale golden colour.
- Carefully remove the biscuits from the tray and cool fully on a wire rack.
Chef tips
- You can use this biscuit recipe for gingerbread men and gingerbread houses both can be decorated using low protein royal icing.
- Gingerbread houses are a great Christmas time treat great to make with the kids and decorate together using low protein sweets and candy.
- You can freeze the biscuit dough until needed for 3 months.