Gingerbread jumpers - Good Food Middle East

Ingredients

• 175g dark muscovado sugar
• 85g golden syrup
• 100g slightly salted butter
• 350g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 tbsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 egg, beaten
• 500g fondant icing sugar
• food colouring paste in various colours, or use coloured icing tubes (and you won’t need the fondant icing sugar)
• sugar sprinkles (optional)