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Ginger Nuts are so ‘childhood’ and I love making them with my kids.  Luckily, Nanna has a great recipe that we use and everyone who has tried these (and can cook) has asked for the recipe.  So today I’ll share the family Ginger Nuts recipe with you.

Ginger Nuts – Ingredients

1 Cup Butter
¾ Cup Golden Syrup
¼ Cup Hot Water
4 Cups Plain Flour
2 Cups Sugar
½ Teaspoon Mixed Spice
1 Tablespoon Ground Ginger
1 ½ Teaspoons Bicarbonate of Soda
Pinch Salt

Ginger Nuts – Method

Melt butter, syrup and water in microwave or on stove top and stir together.
Sieve all dry ingredients and add to butter mixture.
Mix to a nice dough.
Refrigerate for 1 hour (this is not always necessary, it is just to firm the mixture up).
Roll out dough and cut biscuits with scone cutters (or whatever shape takes your fancy).
Bake in moderate oven (180C/350F) for 10 minutes.
Cool on wire racks before storing.

Beware:  This Ginger Nuts recipe makes a lot of biscuits.  I often halve the recipe, depending on what’s required at the time.
Another point is that you can also use this Ginger Nuts recipe as the basis for Ginger Bread Men or other similar biscuits.  We recently made Ginger Angels, Ginger Hearts and Ginger Stars (see the results below – they don’t look beautiful, but they sure do taste it!)

Decorating Ginger Nuts

Whatever shape you make, you can choose to eat them plain, or decorate them.

The first option is to make up a paste of icing sugar and water as ‘glue’ and then stick all types of decorations on – Smarties, coloured sprinkles, coloured cachous etc.

Secondly, try piping a pattern onto the Ginger Nuts.  Again make up a paste of icing sugar, water and food colouring of choice.  Pipe the icing onto the biscuits to make a face, edging or other design.

These truly are wonderful.

Enjoy!