Soft Gingerbread Men

I always found gingerbread men too hard and when I had my braces I couldn't eat them so I altered my recipe slightly.

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   1) Set the oven to 190 degrees celcius and grease a couple of baking trays.
   2)sift flour, ginger and bicarbonate of soda in to a bowl then rub in butter until mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
   3) Mix in sugar and beaten egg.
   4) warm syrup slightly to make it runny then stir enough in to the flour mixture to make a soft dough.
   5)knead until quite smooth then roll out to about 1cm thick
   6)Stamp out shapes with a with a cutter then lift on to a baking tray (not too close as they spread slightly!)and bake for about 12 minutes or until just coloured. Lift on to a wire rack, they will firm up as they cool.