Gingerbread

This recipe is for the tray bake style, the cake is baked in a square tin which I tend to ice and cut into chunks.

Gingerbread

SERVES

9

PEOPLE

PREP TIME

20

MINUTES

COOKING TIME

50

MINUTES

Ingredients

  • 230g self-raising flour

  • 1 level tsp bread soda

  • 1 level tsp ground ginger

  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon

  • 1 level tsp cake spice

  • 110g cold butter, cubed

  • 100g crystallised ginger, chopped

  • 280ml milk

  • 110g dark muscovado sugar

  • 110g treacle

  • 110g Golden Syrup

  • 1 egg

  • For the icing:

  • 175g icing sugar, sieved

  • 1 tbsp lemon juice

  • ½ tbsp water

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