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Gingerbread Cake



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110g/4oz butter

150g/5oz Tate & Lyle Fruit sugar

4 level tbsp Lyle's Black Treacle

2 large eggs

150ml/¼ pt milk

300g/10oz plain flour

2 tsp baking powder

½ tsp bicarbonate of soda

1 tbsp ground ginger

Instructions

  1. Grease and line with non-stick parchment a 23cm /9ins square cake tin.  Heat the oven to 170C/325F/gas mark 3.
  2. Put the butter,Tate & Lyle Fruit Sugar and Lyle's Black Treacle into a small pan and set over a medium heat until the butter has melted.  Stir until smooth and remove from the heat.
  3. Whisk the eggs and milk together.  Sift the dry ingredients into a large bowl, add the melted mixture and the eggs and beat to make a smooth batter.
  4. Pour into the prepared tin and level.  Bake in the oven for 45-50 minutes or until firm to the touch and a skewer comes out clean when tested.
  5. Leave in the tin to cool for 10 minutes, then turn onto a wire rack to cool completely. The cake can be cut into squares, or bars or thick slices.

 

 

This cake can be iced  using 225g/8oz Tate & Lyle Icing Sugar mixed with lemon juice until smooth


 


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