The most Perfect Home-tried Gingernut Cookies for a Teatime Treat
Ingredients
- 56g butter
- 85g golden syrup
- 113g self-raising flour
- 2 tsp ginger powder
- 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- 1/2 tsp bicarbonate soda
- I Tbspn sugar

Method:
- Preheat oven to 160’C(fan oven).
- Line tray with greaseproof paper.
- Melt butter and golden syrup.
- Allow cooling.
- Sift dry ingredients and add the syrup mixture to form a soft slightly sticky dough.
- Roll walnut-sized pieces of dough into balls and flatten.
- Space dough out as these will spread.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes.
- Cool
- Remember, this is not only a Christmas-time cookie, in fact, it is also a perfect cookie year-round.
Recipe credit: Sarah Louise Crosby
Prepared, tried, and tested Preshana Singh
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I mixed for you and saved for me. X
Thank you so much, Ellen. I truly appreciated you helping me mixing the ingredients 🙂
These look very nice, Esme
Thank you Robbie, I love the quick and easy ones and good to fill up the cookie jars