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Brioche bread men – Recipe by – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

First, dissolve the yeast in warm milk.

Place the flours in a well in a bowl and add milk, sugar, egg and orange peel to the centre.
Start kneading, then add salt and oil and work until you obtain an elastic and homogeneous dough.

Cover with cling film and leave to rise in a warm place for at least 2-3 hours or until it has almost tripled in volume.

Take the dough, deflate it with your hands on a lightly floured work surface and roll it out into a fairly thin sheet (0.5-1 cm), then cut out the little men using a 7-8 cm cutter.

Place the little men on the baking tray lined with baking paper, well spaced apart, and let them rise for at least another hour, then brush them with the lightly beaten egg yolk and cook for 15-20 minutes or until golden in a static oven preheated to 180°C .

Remove from the oven and leave to cool, then chop the chocolate and melt it in the microwave or in a bain-marie.

Decorate the little men as desired with melted chocolate and chopped pistachios.

The brioche bread men are ready, let the chocolate dry before serving.

Cocoa gingerbread men – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Place butter, sugar and honey in a saucepan and heat over a low heat until they melt completely, then leave to cool.
In the meantime, separately, sift into a bowl and then mix flour, cocoa, ginger and bicarbonate.

Incorporate the egg yolk and the butter mix and work quickly until you obtain a homogeneous dough, then wrap it with cling film and leave to rest in the fridge for at least 1-2 hours, or better yet overnight.

Once the resting time has passed, take the dough again, roll it out on a lightly floured work surface into a fairly thin sheet (about 0.5 cm) and cut out the little men with a cutter.

Place them on the baking tray lined with baking paper, well separated from each other, and cook them for about 10 minutes or until lightly golden in a fan oven preheated to 180°C, then leave to cool completely.

Start whipping the egg whites, then add the icing sugar first and then the lemon juice: it will not be necessary to whip the egg whites completely, just obtain a smooth and dense, but still fluid, icing.

Place the icing in a piping bag with a smooth and very thin nozzle and decorate your little men as you like, also using sprinkles, then leave to rest for at least 7-8 hours.

The cocoa gingerbread men are ready, all you have to do is let the icing dry and serve them.

Prepared for gingerbread men – Italian Cuisine

Take the well sterilized jar and put in layers: flour, sugar, flavorings, salt and yeast.

The preparation for gingerbread men is ready: close the jar tightly, attach a pretty label with name and instructions and give the jar to those you care about!

Instructions for preparing gingerbread men:
Add 1 egg, 70 g of honey and 125 g of butter. Knead until you have a soft dough, then let it rest in the fridge for 1 hour. Roll out the dough in a not too thin sheet, then cut out the biscuits with the mold. Cook for 8-10 minutes or until browned in a convection oven preheated to 180 ° C.