There's nothing like ginger snap biscuits when having a warm cup of tea or coffee, and Josh Eggleton's ginger snaps recipe ticks all the boxes for a wonderful biscuit treat. It's simple to make, there's no need for special ingredients and most importantly, these ginger snaps are incredibly delicious

Ginger snaps recipe

Dessert

Easy

40 minutes

12

Method
1.
Preheat the oven to 180°C/Gas mark 4. Put the flour, butter, ground ginger and bicarbonate of soda in mixing bowl and mix all together until crumbly
2.
Add the soft brown sugar, golden syrup and egg, mix well until it forms a firm pastry mix
3.
Roll out the pastry on a floured surface to about 5mm thick. Make sure the surface and the rolling pin are well dusted with flour. Cut out approx 60 shapes with a pastry cutter
4.
Place the cut out pastry on a greased or non-stick baking tray and put in the preheated oven. Remove after 7 minutes or when golden. Cool and then serve
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Ingredients

  • 350g of plain flour
  • 175g of soft brown sugar
  • 100g of butter
  • 1 egg
  • 4 tbsp of golden syrup
  • 1 tsp of bicarbonate of soda
  • 1.5 tsp of ground ginger

Equipment

  1. Rolling pin
  2. Pastry cutter
  3. Non-stick baking tray

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Ginger snap biscuits are simple to make and taste great. Make the very best using this Josh Eggleton ginger snaps recipe

Ginger snaps recipe Tweaks

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I reduced the sugar to 150g and added 3 large pieces of stem ginger finely chopped.
5 November 2012
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