Gingerbread Slice

  • Clock Icon Prep 20 mins Cooking 50 mins
  • Dinner Icon Serves 21

This lovely slice is just as good without the icing. A great alternative to gingerbread cookies.

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Ingredients

  • 225g chopped butter
  • 1 cup golden syrup
  • 1 cup treacle
  • 220g soft brown sugar
  • ¼ cup milk
  • 4 eggs, lightly beaten
  • 3 cup The Healthy Baker Self Raising Flour
  • 2 teaspoon mixed spice
  • 2 teaspoon ground ginger

For the icing

  • 1 ⅓ cups icing sugar
  • 1-2 tablespoons water
  • 60g chopped stem or glace ginger

Instructions

1

Preheat the oven to 160°C/140°C fan-forced. Lightly spray a 30 x 23cm roasting dish with oil and line with baking paper.

2

Place butter into mixing bowl and melt 3 min/60°C/speed 2. Add golden syrup, treacle, sugar and heat 1 min/60°C/speed 1. Cool slightly.

3

Add milk and eggs and mix 15 sec/speed 5. Add flour, mixed spice and ginger mix 5 sec/speed 4.

4

Scrape down sides of bowl and mix for a further 10 sec/speed 4. Pour into the prepared tin.

5

Bake in the preheated oven for 40-45 minutes or until risen and until cooked when tested with a skewer. Cool in the cooking dish.

6

To make the icing, sift icing sugar into a medium mixing bowl. Add the water a little at a time, and mix until smooth.

7

Spoon over cake and top with chopped ginger. Cut into 21 pieces.

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