Ginger bread

Yesterday I took my first attempt at ginger bread. At biscuits in general actually! I made the pieces to a ginger bread house and cookies with the left over dough. Unfortunately I didn't get to taste them, my mom took out the last batch after I left and said that the flavour was quite delicious. I found a 5 star rated recipe online and tweeked it to suit the ingredients I could get my hands on. The dough was such a pleasure to work with.

Ingredients

1/2 cup Brown sugar
1/2 cup Maple syrup
1 1/2 tsp Ground ginger
1 tsp Allspice
1 tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Ground cloves
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup Margarine
1 Egg, beaten
3 1/2 cups Flour

• Heat the sugar, syrup, ginger, allspice, cinnamon, and cloves to boiling in a pot, stirring occasionally.
• Remove from heat and stir in baking powder.
• Stir in margarine until melted.
• Stir in egg, then flour.
• Knead the dough on a floured surface until mixed.
• Divide the dough in half and use a rolling pin to roll it to your desired thickness (suggested slightly less than 1/4 inch).
• Cut to shape with a knife or cutters.
• Bake at 165 C for 12 mins.
• Cook on wire rack.