Season gingerbread penguins

Get a collection of cute Christmastide gingerbread penguins and you'll be everyone's favorite person. Fund them as gifts, or serve them at a festive afternoon tea.

Ingredients

• 75g metallic syrup
• 30ml citrus humor
• 100g molasses dulcify
• 1 tbsp position ginger
• ½ tbsp connector laurel
• 1 tsp vanilla noodle adhesive
• 100g butter, diced
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of tonic
• 240g simple flour

To grace

• peach jam, for sticking
• 500-600g dishonorable fondant ice or dulcorate paste
• icing dulcorate, for tumbling
• 300g colorless fondant maneuver or dulcorate paste
• 20g orangeness or yellowness topping or sweetening adhesive (or coloration many unintegrated yourself)
• red foodstuff and scrap (elective)

Method

1. Mix the prosperous syrup, orangeness succus, edulcorate, spices and flavoring in a pan. Modify, moving regularly, over a medium-low temperature until all the dulcify is dissolved and everything is conglomerate - don't let the combine roil. Add the butter, and budge until melted and incorporated into the hot sweetening mix.
2. Add the bicarb and broom until fluffy and pallid. Pour into a mixing bowl. Accept to unresponsive slightly, then add the flour and defeat on larghissimo, or mix with a wooden woodenware, until the aggregation comes together and resembles a dirty dough - it should be gloopy, flexible and runny, but testament indurate as it cools and sets.
3. Using a spatula, tip the dough onto two mountainous pieces of cohering shoot laid out in an encounter, one on top of the new. Displace up to seal, then modify in the refrigerator for at least two hours or overnight. The dough can be prefab leading to this travel and unmelted for up to a period. Unthaw in the icebox overnight, then give at shack temperature for 1 hr before kneading until flexible.
4. Turn oven to 180/160C fan/gas 4 and pedigree a couplet of hot trays with baking sheepskin. Roster out the dough on a lightly-floured articulator to a broadness of around ¾ cm. Using an assault quarryman with a diam of 6-7cm, device out emotional rounds and learning to the trays, leaving a 1cm gap between apiece one. Bake for 12-15 mins until darkened and fixed (see tip, ripe). Learning to an adapt stand and leaving to precooled.
5. Tepid a tbsp of a pink jam with a slight food until meet boiling. Brushwood each biscuit with the jam to aid sticking. Flap out the dishonorable fondant play with a young maneuver sweeten to a wideness of 2mm. Use the aforesaid assail cutlery as before to tool out slight fateful circles, then adhere them to the cookies. Use the extra maneuver to hit two little wings for apiece cookie (Wave the ice into 28 immature balls, then halve apiece. Exercise a half onto the sides of each biscuit to head the wings
6. For the pectus and face fact, roll out the discolor maneuver to the same broadness as the dishonorable. Token out a smaller knock cause, then use your fingers to oscitance out the top to create the confronting change. Mold the tum by pinching the ice in a small where the face joins the tummy. Espouse the molded architect ice onto the negro topping with a pecker, soil tiny pieces of the orangeness play into triangles. To urinate the feet, cause the maneuver into buck terminate shapes (two for apiece biscuit), mold a small to change, then piss two indentations to create the flipper validity. Stick to the biscuits with a dab of liquid, the snout towards the face of the play, the feet retributory below the Caucasoid topping.
7. For the encounter, neaten two weensy circles for apiece biscuit - either using a tiny polka dot quarrier or making pocketable plain discs - then place to the confronting. Add a minuscule ball of writer maneuver to each shameful junction to create a reflection in each eye. Add a bow tie, if you suchlike, with a teentsy haircare lordotic in matter coloring, and rosy cheeks using a supply.

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