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Ginger Cake

Ginger Cake

Recipe Submitted By: bakingmad

Ginger Cake as featured in the series 2 of Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard on Channel 4.

Preparation Time	00 minutes
Baking Time	50 minutes
Portions	1 cake
Skill Level	Easy
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Ginger Cake Ingredients

125 grams	Golden Caster Sugar (Billington's)
125 grams	Unsalted Butter
1	Free Range Eggs
225 ml	Black Treacle
300 grams	Plain White Flour (Allinson Nature Friendly)
2 tsp	Baking Powder
1 tsp	Cinnamon ground
1 tsp	Ginger ground
75 grams	Stem Ginger chopped
	Apricot Jam for the glaze

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How to make Ginger Cake

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Preheat the oven to 180°C/ 160°C fan/ 350°F/ Mark4. Grease and line a loaf tin with baking paper.
In a saucepan, heat the butter, sugar and black treacle until melted
In a bowl, sift the flour, baking powder and spices
Add the black treacle mixture to the dry ingrediants and mix well. Add the egg and mix to combine
Add in the stem ginger and spoon into prepared tin
Bake in the oven for 50 minutes
Once baked, move from oven and leave to cool
Remove from tin and glaze with apricot jam and decorate with more stem ginger

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