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Gingerbread Chav

by Jane Langdon 11 photos Rated 84% 712 votes when voting closed

Reading through the pimp suggestions section of the site I stumbled on the suggestion of a huge gingerbread man – “simple” I think, “I’m well known for my gingerbread cats in these parts, a big gingerbread man would be easy.” Then I got to thinking “Easy is boring, I want to create a pimp with a bit of bling” The idea for gingerbread chav was born…….

I gathered together everything I thought I would need including several chocolate bars with conveniently blingin’ wrappers. (I don’t need any excuse to buy chocolate but this was a good one anyway!)

Icing, flour, sugar, Stork, ginger and sweets stacked below a hand-drawn gingerbread man template

I once again used Saint Delia Smith’s gingerbread recipe to create the perfect base for my chav.

A large ball of pale gingerbread dough resting on a dark speckled worktop

I couldn’t find a cook shop with a big enough cutter (even ebay couldn’t come up with the goods) so I made my own pattern to cut around

Paper template on rolled-out dough with the gingerbread man outline cut round it, rolling pin behind

I then realised he wouldn’t fit on my baking trays! I was not prepared to reduce his chav-tastic height of 20” so decided on radical surgery and cut him in half!

Raw gingerbread man on a baking tray in the oven, part-covered with baking parchment

After a cosy 12 minutes at 170C he came out of the oven with a lovely golden suntan.

The baked giant gingerbread man overhanging a cooling rack on the hob

I left him to cool and get hard while I set about making him some chav bling and a regulation Burberry cap.

Black fondant belt spelling PIMP in silver balls, next to a beige checked icing cap

After a bit of research to familiarise myself with Chav-ness I decided on suitable attire

Red iced T-shirt marked ADIDAS on the gingerbread torso, grey watch on the wrist, PIMP belt below

Pale blue icing tracksuit bottoms and white trainers below the PIMP belt on the gingerbread legs

Made some suitable bling and put the cap on his head.

Close-up of a gold icing chain and pendant round the neck of the red iced shirt

The gingerbread head in its checked cap, with green eyes, red smile and gold chain

Eyes and a mouth later ‘sorted!’

The finished gingerbread chav in cap, ADIDAS shirt and tracksuits, an ordinary gingerbread man beside him

Chavtastic!

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