Jamaican ginger cake
 
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An easy but beautifully sticky Jamaican ginger cake
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Recipe type: Easy
Cuisine: Sweets
Serves: 14 slices
Ingredients
  • 225g Self Raising Flour
  • 1 tsp bicarb of soda
  • 1tsp cinnamon
  • 1tsp mixed spice
  • 2tbs ground ginger
  • 110g softened butter
  • 40g fresh root ginger
  • 20g crystallised ginger
  • 110g dark brown sugar
  • 280g evaporated milk
  • 110g golden syrup
  • 110g treacle
  • 1 medium egg
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 180 and line a large loaf tin with baking paper
  2. Place flour, bicarb of soda, cinnamon, mixed spice and ground ginger in the mixing bowl. Mix 5 seconds/speed 4
  3. Add butter and chop Turbo/2 secs/twice then transfer to separate bowl and set aside
  4. Place root ginger, crystalised ginger, and sugar in the mixing bowl. Grind 4 secs/speed 10. Scrape down sides of bowl
  5. Add evaporated milk, golden syrup and treacle then heat 2 mins/50 degrees/speed 2
  6. Add reserved flour mix then mix 10 secs / speed 3.5. Scrape then 5 secs / speed 3.5
  7. Add the egg then mix 10 secs / speed 4.5
  8. Transfer to prepared loaf tin. Cook for 45 mins, or until a skewer comes out clean.
  9. Wrap in foil and leave until following day
Recipe by Mummy Barrow at https://www.mummybarrow.com/thermomix-ginger-cake/