United Kingdom / Cakes & baking
Gingerbread
This recipe produces a soft gingerbread cake, not gingerbread cookies. Gingerbread is a type of spice cake. Parkin, a variation traditionally eaten in England around Bonfire Night, is partially oat-based.
Ingredients
- butter, 4 oz110 g
- brown sugar, 4 oz110 g
- golden syrup, 8 oz220 g
- all purpose flour, 8 oz220 g
- baking powder, 1 level teaspoon5 ml
- mixed spice, 1 level teaspoon5 ml
- ground ginger, 2 level teaspoons10 ml
- egg2
- milk, 4 fluid oz120 ml
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 9 steps
Put the butter, sugar, and syrup in a saucepan. Heat gently until the butter melts.
Place the dry ingredients in a bowl. Pour the melted butter mixture into the bowl, and beat thoroughly.
Warm the milk in a saucepan (so it will dissolve the syrup).
Add the milk to the bowl, and beat thoroughly.
Beat the eggs, and then stir them in to the mixture.
Pour the mixture into an 8-inch (20 cm) greased square cake tin.
Bake at 170°C (325°F) for 1 hour.
Cool in the tin for 15 minutes, then remove.
Leave at least 1 day before cutting into squares. Serve.
