Desserts Recipes - Date Ginger Cake Recipe

Ingredients

Serves 8   

• 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

• 50ml/2fl oz milk

• 100g/4oz butter (plus extra for greasing)

• 100g/4oz muscovado sugar

• 2 large eggs, beaten

• 150g/5oz golden syrup

• 150g/5oz treacle

• 100g/4oz stoned dates (roughly chopped)

• 50g/2oz stem ginger in syrup (roughly chopped)

• 225g/8oz plain flour (sifted)

• 1 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

• Pinch of salt

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Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F/Gas mark 2. Grease a 3cm/9in square cake tin and line with baking parchment.

2. Stir the bicarbonate of soda into the milk. Beat together the butter and sugar until pale and light.

3. Slowly add the eggs and then stir in the syrup, treacle, milk, dates and stem ginger. Fold in the flour, ground ginger and salt.

4. Pour into the tin and bake for 1 hour, or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.

5. Leave in the tin for 1 hour, then turn out on to a wire rack to cool completely.