Hi and welcome to Steve's kitchen it's that
time of year again we're coming up to
halloween and series seven of the
walking dead. Now I'm making gingerbread
men
I just popped a little hat and a gun in his
hand, starting to look like Rick Grimes
so that's got the old gray matter
thinking how about the walking bread.
Why not if you're going to make gingerbread
men for Halloween it might as well be spooky
Now just because we're making this fun
it doesn't mean we shouldn't use my
tried and tested gingerbread recipe, I''m
starting with a hundred grams thats three
and a half ounces of slightly salted
butter and into that I'm going to pop an
equal amount hundred grams
three-and-a-half ounces of granulated
sugar and then we're just going to cream
this together. Take one egg and just mix
that in as well. Now I've lightly oiled
the inside of a three-quarter cup and
every gingerbread needs molasses or
treacle I'm going to use three quarters of
a cup now for mixing that beautiful
molasses flavor
This is smelling so delicious now I
really want the spices in here so I've
got some pumpkin spice or mixed spice
here, four teaspoons just going to pop that
in there and then all purpose or plain
flour 450 grams that's a pound Start
with your spoon and mix this until you
get a really rich dough, go as far as you
can with your spoon and then get your
hands in and start to bring this dough
together. You will end up with this
beautiful rich dough Now I like to chill
this for about 30 minutes to an hour
it doesn't want to be super firm but we
do want it to firm up a little bit. The
gingerbread dough has firmed up a little
bit now I'm going to bring it out I'm going
to work with half the dough at a time
shaping it up
sprinkle a little bit of flour on top
and then with a rolling pin we just want
to roll this out Now I don't want to
make it too thin it's about quarter of
an inch thick now and take my
gingerbread cutter get it near to the
edge and just lift out our completed
little gingerbread man like so I'm going to
get on and cut a few of these out now.
Here are my walking bread ginger bread
characters and now we're going to have a
little bit of fun and work with them Now I
have just chilled these on a tray in the
fridge and the great thing is because
we're making the walking bread that it
doesn't matter if bit's are missing. The way
we going to form this, we've got some foil
I just doubled it over to make it a
little bit thicker, so with this piece
of foil I'm going to bend a ridge at the
end because i want to take this
gingerbread man and I want to shape him
so his head is up like that and also by
crimping the foil along there we can get
really unusual shapes So we're just
going to play around with these and make
them as cool as we possibly can
Now with the full-size gingerbread you
might want to scoop out a little bit of
the head, maybe make a little bit
of a piece off of the head. You might
want to lose an arm, straighten the legs
you can kind of play with the
shapes maybe make it a little bit skinny
as well and I'm just going to gouge a
little piece out of the side and you can
be fairly fairly rough with this so I'm
going to get on and be creative and make as
many walking bread as I can and while I
mess about with these, were going to
preheat our oven to 350 degrees
Fahrenheit that's 180 Celsius
Now I baked those for just 10 minutes
they're absolutely perfect and you see
the silver foil held the shape of my
little walking bread I'm going to let them
cool down until its completely cold and
then we'll have some fun. Now you're
going to want some royal icing in some
piping bags you could use a zip lock bag
with the corner cut off as well but
these are super cheap to buy. I'm not going
to show you how to make royal icing in this
video, there's already one on my channel
I'll leave a link down below if you need to
do that, once you've got your royal icing
we're going to mix up a black, yellow, red
and one white what are you waiting for
Come on I have my gingerbread cookie here
Now I'm just going to pipe on some eyes
I'm just going to take a little bit of
white ,two eyes and for this guy
I'm just going to let the icing drop down
the middle as if a centre of the spine
and then what I'm going to do is just pipe
on a little sort of rib cage
another thing you might want to do is
have a little bit of white bone coming
out the broken arm so I'm just going to
sort of spiral on a little there.
Right next I'm going to turn over to the
red now you're just being fairly random
I'm going to run a little bit of red
alongside the spine and I'm actually
going to just outline as if it's a a bit
of a wound here on this side now you can
always put just a few little red dots of
any anything all over the cookie as well
and on the side where we've got a chunk
missing out of the walking bread cookie
I'm just going to flood this area with a
red. Another thing that can look quite
good is if we just maybe put a gash on
the leg say and that brings me over to
the black and all I'm going to do is
take the black now and just pipe some
little stitches don't know why I just
think it looks good we'll also just pop
a mouth, pretty much do what you like
with the mouth and just play around with
your icing have fun making the cookies
look as creepy as possible
I do hope this recipe is being a bit of
fun for you all if you're a walking dead
fan don't forget to share this video and
tagged a friend let them know the
Walking bread is back by the way hope
little baby Judith is going to be in this
one may be, may be
not These seem to be my two favorite
characters that I made during this walking
bread series If you decide to make some
I'd love to have some photographs sent
across to me, share them, hashtag the
walking bread and at Steve's kitchen I'll
leave links up here to the full
Halloween series get across and check
out some more videos be good see you
shortly