Chocolate and Ginger Cake
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Easy
- Makes Cake
Ingredients
- 125g butter
- 200g molasses or treacle or dark brown sugar, or use half and half
- 150ml milk
- 1 egg
- about 2 thumbs of fresh ginger chopped finely
- 150g wholemeal flour
- 50g ground almonds
- 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- pinch nutmeg
- pinch smoked sweet paprika
- pinch salt
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 1 shake of cayenne or hot paprika or chilli powder
- 100g dark chocolate broken into small chunks
- 2 tbsp cocoa
Method
- STEP 1Grease 23cm sq appoximately baking tin and get the oven going at 160C.
- STEP 2In a pan melt butter, sugars and treacles. Take off the heat and stir in the milk and chopped fresh ginger. Gradually stir in beaten egg.
- STEP 3Put all the dry ingrediants in a bowl except for the choclate, if you don't have any ground almonds just substitute for flour. Mix the Liquid mixture into the cry ingrediants.
- STEP 4Stir in the Chocolate pieces and pour into the baking tin.
- STEP 5Bake for about 1 hour and don't open the oven until this time has passed otherwise it will sink. Check it's cooked with a knife in the middle.
