Ginger fairings

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• sue b

  17 September 2012

  sue b rated and commented on this recipe

  

  My husband and I loved these biscuits. I will definitely make them again. Easy recipe to follow and at only 136 calories each makes eating them even more of a pleasure.

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• lmcc

  23 September 2012

  lmcc rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Really nice, definitely be making them again. would be good to do with kids

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• Shirley

  25 September 2012

  Shirley rated and commented on this recipe

  

  mine certainly did not look like the picture! They spread all over and off the baking sheet. Anyone tell me what I did wrong?

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• Karen

  29 September 2012

  Karen rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I also made this biscuits and followed the recipe exactly and mine also spread over the baking sheet - not sure what I did wrong either!! They did taste like ginger biscuits but did not look like a biscuit.

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• FromeMama

  30 September 2012

  FromeMama rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Made these this morning after a search for ginger biscuits. Used gluten free flour and dairy free spread btw - I also don't own a food processor and just combined the dry ingredients and df spread by hand which worked just fine. Formed a soft dough - rolled into walnut sized balls by hand and pressed out slightly on the try instead. Made 24 instead of 16 biscuits but still a good size. Came out looking pretty much as the picture! Very tasty and pleased with this recipe, will certainly do again.

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• mandy

  17 October 2012

  mandy rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I tried this with gluten free flour and they are yummy and really easy to make!

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• Zoe

  27 November 2012

  Zoe commented on this recipe

  Just made these, i managed 20 out of the mixture. I agree you can reduce the sugar as they are very sweet. i also used honey instead of syrup and put 3 tbsp instead of 4. Lovely and easy to make.

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• mrsnumpy

  12 January 2013

  mrsnumpy rated and commented on this recipe

  

  This recipe didn't really work for me. I found the mixture far too dry, for me it needed more syrup. Eventually managed to get it to bind and ended up with some reasonable (and pretty spicy!) biscuits.

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• autumnlight

  16 January 2013

  autumnlight rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Though these were nice, the mix was too dry and didn't flatten in the oven at all so I had to push them down with a wooden spoon halfway through cooking, or they would have ended up as ginger balls. Very tasty biscuits in the end though! Weird how people have had issues with them running off the tray - I had the opposite problem!

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• Nikki B

  22 February 2013

  Nikki B rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I was really excited about trying this recipe, and followed it to the gram. I was surprised to find that instead of making dough it was more like a thick batter - the 4 tbls golden syrup seemed to have made the mixture far too wet. I only placed 6 walnut-sized balls on the first baking tray, but the mixture spread to cover the entire tray and was far too dark after only 8 minutes. The resulting objects were dark brown, paper thin and inedible. I tried mixing in (a lot) more flour and then baked another 6 balls of dough for 7 minutes at 190 degrees. These were slightly better, making 3" discs that were a lighter bown. The following batch I baked for 6 minutes - right colour but still too thin.Very disappointing - I threw the rest away.

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• Adele

  13 March 2013

  Adele rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Good recipe, make sure that you don't add too much golden syrup, as it makes it two wet and spread all over the tray, I also recommend putting the mixture in the fridge forn30-60mins if it's warm in the kitchen. Also my mixture went to 35biscuits not 16 like it said I found the come out alot better the smaller the balls you do, I did roughly about inch sized balls and they come out great.

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• selena71

  26 April 2013

  selena71 commented on this recipe

  Wow! Followed the recipe to the letter - very wet mix and monster biscuits invaded my oven. Good flavour but they were massive!

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• TiffanyPlums

  12 May 2013

  TiffanyPlums rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Fab. Made with gluten free flour and used honey instead of golden syrup. The only thing I would change is maybe adding alittle less salt. Other than that they looked just like the picture and I will be making another batch tonight!

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• MaartjeD

  16 May 2013

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• MaartjeD

  16 May 2013

  MaartjeD commented on this recipe

  Made 20 biscuits from the available dough. Added 2 tbs of golden syrup to the mixture as it was a bit dry. Perfect after 8 min. in the fan oven at 180 degrees.

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• maisiegliddon

  29 May 2013

  maisiegliddon commented on this recipe

  I made these with 1/2 doves farm gluten free flour and 1/2 spelt flour and only 3 tbsp's of golden syrup! They were fantastic and didn't last long - I will be making these again!

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Ingredients

• 100g butter , diced, plus extra for the baking sheet
• 225g plain flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 tbsp ground ginger
• 2 tsp mixed spice
• 100g caster sugar
• 4 tbsp golden syrup

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MAKES 16

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Prep 10 mins

Cook 10 mins

Ingredients

• 100g butter , diced, plus extra for the baking sheet
• 225g plain flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 tbsp ground ginger
• 2 tsp mixed spice
• 100g caster sugar
• 4 tbsp golden syrup

PER BISCUIT

136 kcalories, protein 2g, carbohydrate 21g, fat 5 g, saturated fat 3g, fibre 1g, sugar 10g, salt 0.6 g

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