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What you’ll need

butter

225g chopped butter

golden syrup

1 cup golden syrup

treacle

1 cup treacle

brown sugar

220g soft brown sugar

milk

¼ cup milk

eggs beaten

4 eggs, lightly beaten

flour

3 cup The Healthy Baker Self Raising Flour

mixed spice

2 teaspoon mixed spice

ginger

2 teaspoon ground ginger

For the icing

icing sugar

1 ⅓ cups icing sugar

water

1-2 tablespoons water

glace ginger

60g chopped stem or glace ginger

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.