Gingerbread man (my version)

Ingredient:

For 50 2-3 inches cookies

Flour (low protein) 300g-350g

Butter 140g

Brown Sugar/Dark Sugar 80g (dont use white sugar!!!)

Honey 1 table spoon

Egg (whole) 2

Cinnamon powder 2 tea spoons

Ginger powder 2 tea spoons to 4 tea spoons (depends how gingery you want)

Cloves powder 1 tea spoon

Method :

1.Soften butter in room temperature, then cream the butter with hand blender, then add-in sugar, until all sugar dissolved.

2. Add eggs to "1" bits by bits, until all well mixed. Then add honey, until well mixed.

3. sieve all the dry ingredients(flour,Cinnamon powder, Ginger powder, cloves powder and a pinch of salt) into a big bowl.

4. Add "3" into "2" then mix with hands. until a dough form (5 mins at most, or biscuits would become rock), it shouldn't be too sticky. (Add some flour if needed)

5.Roll out the dough in a plastic bag until a 0.3-0.5 cm thick sheet formed. Then put it in fridge to rest for 30 minutes.

6. cut the plastic bag and take the dough out, cut it into desire shape.

7. preheat the oven to 150 degree C. then bake it for 10-12 minutes.

8. Cool down on rack.

Icing:

1 egg white

120 icing sugar

few drops of lemon juice

1. Beat the egg whites until small bubbles form, then add lemon juice and half of the icing sugar.

2. Continue beating and add the remaining icing sugar, until the mixture become very very thick and would not drip even filp the bowl over.

3. Add food colouring. 1 drop of food colouring for each table spoon icing.