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Spiced Gingerbread Cake

Course afternoon tea, Dessert

Ingredients
  

  • 250 g butter
  • 250 g dark muscovado sugar
  • Half of a 225g tin black treacle
  • 375 g plain flour
  • 5 tsp ground ginger
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 3 pieces stem ginger
  • 300 ml milk
  • 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Instructions
 

  • Grease and line either two 7 inch sandwich tins or one 10 inch deep tin
  • Grease and line your tin(s) with baking paper
  • Preheat the oven to 160C/325F/Gas 3.
  • Gently heat the butter, sugar and treacle together in a pan.
  • Set aside
  • In a large bowl, stir together the flour and ground spices.
  • Pour in the treacle/butter/sugar mix and combine.
  • Mince the stem ginger finely and stir with the eggs into the mix.
  • Warm the milk gently in a saucepan.
  • Add the bicarbonate of soda and let it foam a little.
  • Stir into the gingerbread mixture until well blended.
  • Pour into the prepared tin(s).
  • Place into oven and cook until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
Keyword afternoon tea, cake, gingerbread