Pimp That Snack

Ginganaut

by Amy Hawkins 8 photos Rated 34% 182 votes when voting closed

You will need:

3 1/2 oz (100g) marg
3 1/2 oz (100g) Light brown sugar
3 1/2 oz (100g) golden syrup mmmmmmm…. Golden
7 1/2 oz (225g) plain flour
1 tsp plain flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Olive oil
a great big dollop of ground ginger
Nutritional information: about 85% of your RDA of ginger, calories um…..enough to scale mount Everest without breaking a sweat.

Light brown sugar, golden syrup, Stork, ground ginger, olive oil and a tub of flour on the worktop

cost: £5

Grease a square baking sheet with olive oil and preheat the oven to about 180oc/350of

Greasing a large baking tray with a pastry brush

Put the marge, sugar and syrup into a saucepan (I’m using my Anthony Worrell Thompson digital scales which measures in 1/8ths, pedanticness at it’s best!)

Pouring golden syrup from a spoon into a saucepan of butter and sugar on scales

Put the saucepan on a high heat and melt. (lovely pre-ginger biscuit goo!). Then take it off the heat and wait for a few minutes

Stirring the melted butter, sugar and syrup mixture with a wooden spoon on the hob

Sieve the flour bicarb and ginger (add as much as you like) over the saucepan

Sifting flour through a sieve into the saucepan of syrup mixture sitting on kitchen scales

Mix it all in until you get a big dough

Hand flattening a huge ball of gingerbread dough beside a normal biscuit-sized one

Take the dough out of the saucepan and roll it into a round ball

Giant and normal dough rounds on a tray inside the oven, ready to bake

Wack it in the oven for about 20 mins

My ginganaught is cooked leave it to cool completly before taking off the tray otherwise you’ll never get it out in one piece!
so there you are, so ok it’s not a pimp of biblical proportions but it’s quite easy to make it bigger if you like and it tastes rather good with a cup of tea and 5 mates to help….oh to hell with it I’m gonna eat it all!

The baked giant ginger biscuit filling the tray, a standard-sized one beside it

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