Gingerbread please!

Looking for a really good SOFT gingerbread recipe for men and houses please anyone!

I have a few but they don't taste right and aren't soft enough...

I'll be watching this thread. I dont like the recipes where you have to do most of the dough on the stovetop

I got this recipe from the Taste site last year. We made a gingerbread house with it and it was sooooo good. I don't usually like gingerbread and I loved this;


Ingredients

* 3 1/2 cups self-raising flour
* 1 cup plain flour
* 1 tablespoon ground ginger
* 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
* 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
* 185g butter, chopped
* 1/2 cup golden syrup
* 2 eggs, lightly beaten
* 1/4 cup pure icing sugar
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Royal icing
* 2 eggwhites, lightly beaten
* 3 cups pure icing sugar
Method

1. Combine flours, ginger, cinnamon, sugar and butter in a food processor. Process until mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Whisk golden syrup and eggs together in a jug. With the motor running, add egg mixture and process until dough just comes together. Turn onto a lightly floured surface. Knead gently until smooth. Cut dough in half and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours or until well chilled.
2. Roll dough, 1 portion at a time, between 2 sheets baking paper until 5mm thick. Remove top layer baking paper. Using cardboard cut-outs as a guide, cut shapes from dough (see tip). Place gingerbread in a single layer on trays. Freeze for 15 minutes or until firm.
3. Preheat oven to 180°C. Line 4 baking trays with baking paper. Place gingerbread on trays. Bake, 2 trays at a time, for 15 minutes or until firm. Cool on trays.
4. Make royal icing: Using an electric mixer, beat eggwhites until soft peaks form. Gradually add icing sugar, beating constantly until thick.

I really want to make a ginger bread house with the kids this year for christmas, I always wanted to but never got around to it!

We love making gingerbread houses. Me & DH had so much fun making one last year.

Oh yum, thanks Lisa. I am sooooo craving ginger bread right now and soft stuff too. I had to make do with a batch of honey jumbles the other day but i burnt the bottom!
I am sooo going to make this and just eat every last bit myself :rofl:

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I had a craving for gingerbread yesterday!! I'm cooking mine today :D I just got a packet of the Greens Gingerbread mix

oh i want to make a gingerbread house now!

I've been craving gingerbread broken through vanilla ice cream for most of this pregnancy... I'm yet to have it though.

The recipe I posted does make a nice, soft gingerbread too, but it is solid enough to build a gingerbread house with.