I also love your idea of having the cookie cutters attached to the gingerbread version.

Ingredients

To make one jar you will need…
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 2 and 1/2 cups plain flour
• 2 teaspoons ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Extra ingredients for making (roughly 20) biscuits:

• 125g butter, chopped
• 2/3 cup golden syrup

Method to make the jar

Sift flour, ginger and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl.

Spoon the half the flour mixture into a 1L (4-cup) capacity glass jar (if you a re-using make sure it is thoroughly cleaned and completely dry).

Top with brown sugar and then the remaining flour mixture. Seal jar.

When I give this one as a gift I normally tie a gingerbread man cutter with ribbon to the jar along with a gift tag with the recipe to make the biscuits…

Method to make the biscuits

Preheat oven to 180°C and line two baking trays with non-stick baking paper.

Empty jar into the bowl of a food processor with the butter and syrup and process until a smooth dough forms.

Divide the dough into two pieces and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 30 minutes until firm.

Roll dough out between two sheets of baking paper to roughly 4mm thick.

Use cookie cutters to cut shapes from the dough and place them on the baking trays.

Bake for 8 – 10 minutes. Allow to cool on trays. Decorate or simply eat as they are!