Shrek: Gingy The Ginerbread Man Recipe
LORD FARQUAAD: Run, run, run, as fust as you can. You can’t catch me. I’m the gingerbread man!
GINGY: You are a monster.
LORD FARQUAAD: I’m not the monster here. You are. You and the rest of that fairy tale trash, poisoning my perfect world. Now, tell me! Where are the others?
GINGY: Eat me!
LORD FARQUAAD: I’ve tried to be fair to you creatures. Now my patience has reached its end! Tell me or I’ll –
GINGY: No, no, not the buttons. Not my gumdrop buttons.
SHREK
Shrek: Gingy The Ginerbread Man Recipe
Shrek: Gingy The Ginerbread Man Recipe
I use to hate gingerbread cookie and that all changed when I finally found a recipe for gingerbread cookie I loved. The cookie was chewy, moist, and packed with holiday spices. When the amazing Jeunelle, (find her on instagram) suggested that I do something inspired by the movie, Shrek, I immediately knew I needed to create the amazing Gingy for this holiday season. I honestly thought this was going to be a breeze. I already had a gingerbread recipe I loved but I quickly realized that it wasn’t going to be as easy and I anticipated. Gingy has a very light brown color and most of my gingerbread cookie recipes called for quite a bit of molasses leaving the cookie very dark. Another problem I came across was I needed Gingy to sit up like he did in the interrogation scene when Lord Farquaad broke off his legs. Most of the recipes I had yielded such a soft cookie that he completely slide off any mold I tried to place him on and thats when I came up with this.
This cookie is very chewy and soft but it also holds up to it being baked slightly bent. It’s such a great recipe especially because it will hold it’s shape when it bakes.
For decorating inspiration, google images of Gingy and maybe even watch the interrogation scene on youtube (that scene never gets old).
Shrek: Gingy - The Gingerbread Man
Ingredients
- | DOUGH |
- 2 1/2 cups / 12oz / 342g - all purpose flour
- 1 tsp - cinnamon
- 1 tbsp - ground ginger
- 1/8 tsp - ground cloves
- 1/2 tsp - baking soda
- 1/2 tsp - salt
- 2/3 cup / 5oz / 142g - unsalted butter cubed and room temp
- 1 - egg yolk large
- 3/4 cup / 4.5oz / 135g - brown sugar
- 3 tbsp / 1.75oz / 50g - golden syrup
- 2 tbsp / 1.75oz / 50g - molasses
- | ROYAL ICING |
- 1 1/2 / 1.5 oz - egg white
- 2 cups / 8oz / 226g - powdered sugar sifted
- 1/2 tsp - vanilla extract
- purple gum drops - as needed
- red and light blue gel food coloring as needed
Instructions
- In a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, combine your flour, spices, salt, and baking soda. Mix until combined.
- Add the cubed butter and mix on medium speed until it resembles coarse wet sand.
- Combine the yolk, sugar, molasses, and syrup. Add it to the mixture and mix on medium speed until the dough comes together. Wrap the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- When your dough is firm, place it on a lightly floured surface. Roll the dough out until it's 1/4" thick. Punch out the gingerbread shape with a cookie cutter.
- To get the right Gingy shape and depending on the type of cookie cutter your have, trim the legs and arms with a sharp pairing knife. The sides of the legs and arms should be straight. If necessary, trim the base of the neck to get a slight smaller head.
- Transfer each piece to a silpat or parchment lined sheet pan. Adjust the head and arms to how you want Gingy to be positioned. If you want Gingy to be sitting up slightly like in the interrogation scene, place him on the side of a lightly greased sautee pan.
- Bake at 350F for 12 minutes or until golden brown.
- Meanwhile, to create the royal icing, add the egg whites to a stand mixer with a paddle attachment.
- On low speed, add the sifted powdered sugar. Whisk until the mixture is smooth. Add the extract and mix to combine.
- Set aside half of the icing in a bowl, covered with plastic wrap. Divide the last half into two bowls and color one batch red and the other batch light blue. Bag the icing in a pipping bag fitted with small tip.
- With images of Gingy to use as a guide, pipe the white icing to create his eyes and stitches and her legs. The light blue is for his eye brows and the red is for his mouth. Use royal icing to glue his gum drops buttons on.
