Headless Gingerbread men

If you love making gingerbread people over the holidays, you'll love this fun take for All Hallows Eve! This recipe for Headless Halloween Gingerbread People is too cute for words and they make great Halloween party cookies.

 
Cooking Time: 10 min
Ingredients
 10 ounces or 300 grams self-rising flour
 Pinch salt
 4 ounces or 100 grams caster sugar
 3 teaspoons ground ginger
 2 ounces or 50 grams margarine or dairy-free spread
 3 tablespoons golden syrup
 4 tablespoons milk or water
 1 tablespoon raspberry or strawberry jam

Instructions
1. Heat oven to 160 degrees Celsius or 325 degrees F. Grease a baking tray.
2. Put salt, flour and ginger in a bowl. Warm sugar, fat and syrup together, and add this to the dry ingredients. Mix well.
3. Add milk or water and mix to a firm consistency, and then knead lightly.
4. Roll out dough and use a person-shaped cookie cutter to cut shapes out.
5. Modify these shapes with a knife, removing most of the head. Feel free to get creative and leave jagged edges at the neck or remove part of a limb too etc!
6. Place on baking tray and bake for 10-15 minutes. Remove and cool on cooling rack, as syrup-based cookies need a few minutes to crisp up after baking.
7. Decorate with the jam and a pastry brush/small paintbrush, brushing the jam onto the necks. Again, feel free to get creative - clumps or trickles of jammy 'gore' are all in the spirit of Halloween!