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What you need!

125gm soft butter

½ cup brown sugar

½ cup treacle

1 egg yolk

2 ½ cups plain flour, sifted

1 tablespoon ginger powder

1 tablespoon mixed spice

2 tablespoons bicarb of soda

What you do!

Beat the butter and sugar until light and pale in colour.  Beat in treacle until well combined. Add yolks one at a time. Sift all dry ingredients together and combine with the butter and sugar mixture until dough forms. Knead for 10 minutes then refrigerate for 25 minutes until firm.

Roll dough out around 6mm thick between baking paper. Using a round biscuit cutter, cut out circles and place on a baking tray lined with baking paper.

Use your fingertip to press oval shapes into the circles in the pattern of a ‘Socket paw print’, as per the picture below.

Bake in oven at 180c for 10 – 12 minutes. Glaze ginger bread while still warm.

Glaze

½ tablespoon caster sugar

1 tablespoon warm water

¼ teaspoon gelatine

Stir until all ingredients are dissolved.  Brush on the Ginger Bread Paw Prints while they are still warm.

Icing

1 egg white @ room temperature

1 ¾ cups icing sugar, sifted

¼ teaspoon lemon juice

Whip egg white until frothy. Gradually add sifted icing sugar until stiff peaks form, stir in juice.  Load into a pastry bag with a small nozzle hole or a plastic freezer bag with a very small hole cut in the corner.  Pipe around the oval shapes to decorate the paw prints. Enjoy!

Why not take a photo of you and your paw prints and send it to Socket?  You never know - the photo may appear in the next Power Kids' newsletter.