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Ingredients
- For the Ginger bread
- 250g unsalted butter
- 200g dark muscovado sugar
- 7 tbsp golden syrup
- 600g plain flour
- 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 4 tsp ground ginger
- TO DECORATE
- 200g bag flaked almonds
- 2 egg whites
- 500g icing sugar , plus extra to dust
- 125g pack mini chocolate fingers
- generous selcetion sweets of your choice, choose your own colour theme
- 1 mini chocolate roll or a dipped chocolate flake
- As you can see I am posting in my Name Finla. Removed the Happy Cook :-)
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