Little Lady and The Boy both love gingerbread biscuits made by a certain baby / child food company and I buy lots of bags and boxes of them. I’m currently attempting to try to save money wherever I can and realised that these biscuits (and similar snacks) are actually quite pricey so I wanted to try to make my own equivalent biscuits. These little smiley guys and gals are sugar free and took only 15 minutes from start to finish to make and both kids wolfed them down! I did plan to make them in more fun shapes than I did but my fabulous shaped cookie cutters haven’t arrived yet from Japan so I just used a little round cookie cutter today. You can make them in any shape or size you want but as my kids like the little round bagged biscuits I tried to emulate them as closely as I could. I hope you enjoy them as much as we all have!

NB: These biscuits do contain honey so aren’t suitable for under 1’s.

2 tbsp honey

100g unsalted butter

125g plain flour

A pinch of bicarb of soda

1 tbsp of ground ginger

1 small egg or 1/2 a large egg

Melt the butter either on the hob or in a microwave then add the honey to the warm butter and stir until it’s all melted and mixed together. Beat the egg then add all the ingredients together and mix until you get a dough like consistency.

Pick up the dough and make it into a ball with your hands then place on a well floured surface.

Roll out until its quite thin then cut out as many shapes as you can with cookie cutters. Decorate however you want. I used a kebab stick to make smiley faces!

Place the shapes onto a well greased or non stick baking sheet and cook in the oven on 180 degrees C for 10-12 minutes.

Take out and leave to cool and then enjoy!

These can be frozen or stored in a tupperware box for a few days. Any leftover dough can be made into more cookies or wrapped in clingfilm and either refrigerated for a few days and then used or frozen.