Mary Berry's Gingerbread Cake
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Easy
- Serves 15
Ingredients
250g/ 8oz softened butter (or margarine for lactose-free)
- 250g/ 8oz dark muscovado sugar
- Half of a 225g tin black treacle
- 375g/ 12oz plain flour
- 5 tsp ground ginger
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 3 pieces stem ginger (crystallised/ from a jar) - optional
- 300ml/ half pt milk (unsweetened soya milk if lactose-free)
- 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Method
- STEP 1This mix makes enough to fill 2 x standard 7inch Victoria sandwitch tins or 1 x 10inch diameter tin. Grease and base line your tin(s) with baking paper; preheat the oven to 160C/325F/Gas 3.
- STEP 2Gently heat the margarine, sugar and treacle together in a pan, stirring until smooth. Allow to cool a little.
- STEP 3In a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour and ground spices. Pour in the treacle mix and stir thoroughly to combine. Mince the stem ginger finely and stir with the eggs into the mix.
- STEP 4Warm the milk gently in a saucepan, stirring gently to avoid it burning at the base of the pan. Add the bicarb of soda and let it foam a little. Stir into the gingerbread mixture until well blended.
- STEP 5Pour into the prepared tin(s).
- STEP 6Baking time: for 2x 7 inch cakes is 25-30mins (bake both together). For 1x 10inch cake bake for approx 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
- STEP 7This cake keeps really well in an airtight tin, and actually improves over the first 2-3 days. Enjoy!
