Gingerbread

Ive just whipped up a quick ginger bread dough with DD, but DS woke up in the middle and i think ive miss measured something as the biscuits have spread far too much, not kept their shapes at all and more than a little crunchy!

HELP! How can i rectify the left over dough?

@Louise
@Frances
@laceybat
and any other culinary wizz kids!

Here's my remedy, cook and eat all the stuff you've already made... and start again

oh you'd cook it first... woops

yep cook first then cut out shapes then start again

I find with gingerbread you have to roll it quite thin or it puffs up and spreads iykwim

I find with gingerbread you have to roll it quite thin or it puffs up and spreads iykwim

ah ok, we did roll v thin, willl try that

I find with gingerbread you have to roll it quite thin or it puffs up and spreads iykwim

Yep, this. Also freezing or refrigerating the dough so its cold when rolling out can help too provided you get it in the oven fairly quickly.

I always roll straight onto the baking paper as I find the mixtire sticky. I also use a fair bit of flour when rolling and chill my mixture in the fridge before hand. X

I hate using flour to roll out, I always make far too much mess I pop the gingerbread on some cling film, then cover it with cling film before rolling out.