Michelle Darmody: How to bake the perfect tray bake gingerbread

Feel free to adjust the amounts of ginger and cinnamon to taste as you get familiar with the recipe.

There are a few variations on the recipe suggested and once you get comfortable with it you can experiment further.

Run, run just as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man.

Gingerbread comes in many different forms, from the crisp biscuits of the gingerbread man to a soft and sticky ginger loaf, or an iced tray bake cake infused with crystalised stem ginger.