How to Cook

Preheat oven to 180C

Cream butter and sugar till soft and pale

Beat in egg and ginger

Fold in dry ingredients

Mix into a soft dough

Form into 2 discs, wrap in clingfilm and rest in fridge for 30 mins

Sprinkle surface with flour

Roll disc to 5 mm thickness

Cut into shapes, dipping cutter into flour as you go

Keep the scraps from the first disc and mix into the next disc

Roll and cut the next disc

Place on baking trays

Bake in oven till pale gold, approx 8-12 mins

Remove from oven and leave to cool

Gild or decorate each cookie