Iced Gingerbread Recipe |
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You will need:- 4 oz. margarine 6 oz. black treacle 2 oz. golden syrup ¼ pint milk 2 eggs 8 oz. plain flour 2 oz. castor sugar 1 rounded teaspoon mixed spice 1 level teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 2 level teaspoons ground ginger For the icing:- 8 oz. icing sugar 2 tablespoons water crystallized ginger slices
Preparation Time:- 30 minutes
Cooking Time:- 1¼ to 1½ hours
Oven Setting:- 310°F; Gas Mark 2
Melt margarine, treacle and syrup in a large saucepan. Add milk and allow mixture to cool. Beat eggs and add to mixture. Sieve dry ingredients together and add the liquid mixture gradually, blending in with a metal spoon. Pour into a greased and lined loaf tin. Bake in the center of a cool oven for 1¼ to 1½ hours. Turn out, cool on a wire tray and remove the paper.
Sieve the icing sugar twice and add the water very gradually, beat well after each addition. The icing should be stiff enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon.
Pour the icing over the top of the cake and smooth with a palette knife. Decorate with crystallized ginger slices.
Quick Tip
To measure golden syrup: because of its sticky consistency can prove difficult to measure accurately. This can be overcome by covering the scale pan with flour. The syrup can then be tipped out quite easily.
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