Eat Me Up!
Serves: 12 Prep Time: 20 min Cook Time: 1hr
125g unsalted butter or vegetable margarine
125g light brown sugar
90g black treacle
80g maple syrup
50g ginger cordial
250g self-raising flour
50g plain flour
1tsp ground ginger
½tsp bicarbonate of soda 170g apple sauce
3 balls stem ginger, finely chopped icing:
125ml double cream
1tbsp icing sugar
100ml fresh custard
2 ginger nut biscuits, roughly crushed
1 Preheat oven to 180C/ Gas 4, and lightly oil and base-line a 900g loaf tin.
2 Put butter, sugar, treacle, syrup and cordial in a pan and heat gently. Stir until butter has melted.
3 Sift flours, ginger and bicarbonate of soda together into a large bowl. Add syrup mixture, apple sauce and stem ginger and mix well. Pour into the prepared loaf tin and bake for 50 mins-1 hr, until firm to touch. Leave to cool in tin.
4 For icing, whip cream and icing sugar together until it holds its shape, then add custard and whisk until thick. Spread over the top of the cooled cake and scatter with ginger nuts to serve.
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