Sticky Sweet Ginger Cake
Serves: Makes 20 slices
Takes: 30 mins to 1 hour
This is one of my favourite tray bake cake recipes. I love the flavour of ginger and the black treacle makes it go all sticky and gooey. It tastes best after a few days and will keep well in an airtight container for up to a week after baking.
Ingredients
225g unsalted butter
225g soft dark brown sugar
225g black treacle
290ml milk
100g raisins (optional)
340g plain flour
2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
1 tablespoon ground ginger
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
2 eggs, room temperature, beaten
50g coconut flakes (optional)
Method
Melt the butter, sugar and treacle in a saucepan. Once melted turn off the heat and pour in the milk and stir in the raisins (if using). Leave to cool.
In the meantime line a 30 cm x 20 cm cake tin with parchment paper and preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F/gas 2.
Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda, ginger and cinnamon together.
Pour the melted mixture into the dry ingredients and add the beaten eggs and coconut flakes (if using).
Stir well and pour into the tin. Bake in the centre of the preheated oven for 45mins - 1 hour.
Check back after 45 mins to see if the cake is cooked. You can check by inserting a skewer into the centre. It should come out clean. If is doesn't then put back in the oven for another few minutes. If the top starts to brown too much then pop some extra parchment paper on there.
Once cooked, remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin before slicing.
