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Giant Gingerbread Boy

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Giant gingerbread boy – by Class 3, Lower Heath CE Primary School, Shropshire

Our class of Year 5 & 6 children were trying to think of something different to do for Comic Relief, when our teacher showed us your site. We looked at a couple of other gingerbread men on the site but wondered whether we could make one even bigger…

So, we thought, ‘Why not make a gingerbread boy the same size as a real boy?’ We looked around for a boy around the right size, and chose Harry (he’s 5, and 105cm).

Operation Gingerbread Boy was born…

We needed quite a lot of ingredients. We found this recipe for 12 gingerbread men, but it wouldn’t be anywhere near enough! So we multiplied all of these quantities by 8!

390g flour plain flour
2 ½ teaspoons of baking powder
1 tablespoon ground ginger
1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¼ teaspoon salt
115g butter
150g light brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 large egg
110g treacle

Also, to stick parts of the boy together, we used these things to make royal icing:
500g icing sugar
2 egg whites

We also wanted to dress our boy in his school uniform, so we used:
4 boxes of roll out icing
Food colouring – black, red, green and blue

So, if you fancy making a life sized gingerbread boy, here’s how…

First, get a class of children ready with bowls, aprons, scales etc. (we used 24 children working in groups of 3, but any number will do!) Get them to mix their dry ingredients in a mixing bowl.

In another bowl, mix the butter, brown sugar and vanilla essence. Whisk with an electric mixer until creamy.

Add the egg and treacle to the bowl with the sticky mixture in it. Continue to mix until blended.

Mix the two sets of ingredients together until you have a ball of dough.

Now comes the bit where you need to make your pattern pieces. We drew around Harry and then cut the paper pattern into 10 pieces so that each piece would fit into the oven.

Roll out the dough into the correct sized and shape pieces and cook each one at 180oC for 10-15 minutes. When they are cool, stick each one onto a large piece of card with a little royal icing so that they stay in place.

Next is to give your boy some clothes. We dressed ours in our school uniform. First you need to colour your icing by mixing a small amount of food colouring with the blocks of roll out icing. Be careful not to mix too much colouring in, as this makes the icing go really sticky; add some icing sugar if this happens. Also, be careful not to spill the food colouring – it makes a real mess if you do. Believe us, we know! Our final work of warning is that the food colouring may not come off for a few days, so you may get some funny looks from other people when they see your green hands!

When you’ve coloured the icing, roll it out

and cut to shape. Use some royal icing to stick the clothes to the boy.

Our teacher, Mrs. Rutherford, used royal icing to ice the school’s logo onto his jumper.

Finally, as our boy was for red nose day, we gave him a big red nose.

And here are the finished boys:

The one on the left is made of Gingerbread and the one on the right is Harry!

Comparisons:
Normal gingerbread boy – 15cm
Harry – 105cm
Giant gingerbread boy – 110cm

Cost of small gingerbread boy – 30p
Cost of giant gingerbread boy – The ingredients cost £17.45, but our teacher paid for them. When he was finished, we cut him up and sold him to raise money for Comic Relief. We raised £20, and he was yummy!

We think we did a fantastic job, and we hope you agree. We hope you have enjoyed reading this, and we’re already thinking about what we can do next.

Please rate our boy – we are hoping for a really great score! Thanks.

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