While I don’t pretend to know anything about baking, I do know what tastes good – and these gingerbread people taste good.

Freya and I tried four or five different free-from recipes, with varying degrees of success, before we stumbled upon the perfect one.

Just in case you’re on the hunt for a recipe, I thought I’d share.

It’s easy for toddlers (and adults) to make and it also rolls out nicely so you can cut out all sorts of shapes. It’s adapted from this Netmums recipe.

I use: 

Ingredients:

1 egg.

350g gluten-free flour (we normally use Dove’s Farm but have also made it with supermarket own-brand and it tastes just as good).

100g Vitalite.

1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda

2 heaped teaspoons of ground ginger.

175g light brown sugar.

4 generous tablespoons of golden syrup.

Recipe:

Put the flour and Vitalite in a bowl and rub together.

Add in the…