Gingerbread Recipe | Christmas Food Recipes

Gingerbread Recipe 6 November 2024

Nothing beats the delicious aroma of gingerbread at this time of year, and for many, making gingerbread has become a favoured festive tradition. To celebrate our gingerbread-house-making workshops with Jo Malone London throughout December, our Executive Pastry Chef, Ryan, has shared the secrets to his own gingerbread recipe.

Ingredients

Makes 30 cookies or a small gingerbread house. Top tip, if you want to build a gingerbread house, download a template online and print it off to guide you with cutting the tiles needed to build the structure. Be sure to use plenty of icing to glue the sides together!

150g honey
350g rye flour
150g Demerara sugar
90g butter
60g ground almond
4g cinnamon
10g Christmas spice (4g cinnamon, 3g ginger, 3g mixed spice)
6g cocoa powder
30g egg
3g bicarbonate of soda
20g orange juice

Method

Preheat the oven to 175°C and line baking trays with baking paper.
Combine the flour, ground almond, cocoa and Christmas spice in a bowl.
In a pan, gently heat the honey, butter, Demerara sugar and orange juice until dissolved, then add the bicarbonate of soda.
Pour the liquid into the bowl with the dry ingredients and mix well, then add the egg and stir in until a stiff dough has formed.
Leave to cool slightly, then, on a surface dusted lightly with flour, roll out the dough so it is approximately 5mm thick.
Cut to tile size needed, or stamp out the gingerbread men shapes if using a cutter.
Place on the lined trays and bake for 10-15 minutes, or until golden.