My brother got these 3D dinosaur cookie cutters for his birthday and asked me to make some gingerbread cookies. I dutifully obliged and we had fun putting them together. I've never made 3D cookies before and to be honest was a little dubious but was surprised at how well these turned out. His colleagues claim it the best gingerbread ever and they also had fun putting it together and eating it.
I used a recipe that I'd used previously and made a few gingerbread people as well which the dinosaurs 'attacked'. There are 3 other dinosaur cutters and they also come in a safari theme - giraffe, lion, elephant and hippo which look really cute. Definitely going on my Christmas wish list unless someone wants to get me a belated birthday present....
I'm entering this to Treat Petite. It's hosted by Kat from The Baking Explorer and Stuart from Cakeyboi and the idea is to submit any sweet treat that's individually portioned and not a big cake. The theme this month is 'No Theme' so anything goes.
simple store cupboard ingredients 
roll out dough and cut out shapes then bake 
it's a 3D T-rex dinosaur! 
T-rex eating a gingerbreadman
Anxious family looking worried and deciding if they should run or not There's a lot of dinosaurs here!125g unsalted butter, softened
110g dark brown sugar
2.5 cups plain flour, sifted
1 egg yolk
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
4-6 tsp ground ginger
2 tsp mixed spice
270mls golden syrup
- Preheat the oven to 160C
- Beat butter, sugar and egg yolk in a bowl until smooth
- Stir in the remaining ingredients until its mixed properly
- You may need to add a little more golden syrup if the mixture is crumbly
- Knead the dough on a floured surface and roll it out to approximately 5mm in thickness.
- Cut shapes using cookie cutters
- Place on a baking tray and bake for approximately 8-10 minutes until they are brown
- Cookies will harden once cool
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