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Gingerbread Loaf Cake

This warmly spiced loaf combines honey, brown sugar, and ginger in a buttery batter baked until firm and fragrant.

$0.15per serving $
60 minstart to table
12servings

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Ingredients

  • 100 g butter plus extra for the tin
  • 100 g honey
  • 125 g dark brown demerara sugar
  • 4 tbsp milk
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 200 g self-raising flour
  • 1/4 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • large pinch of grated nutmeg
  • large pinch of ground cloves
  • large pinch of ground allspice
  • 1 egg beaten

Steps

  1. Heat the oven to 350 F and butter a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan.
  2. Warm the butter, honey, brown sugar, and milk in a saucepan until melted, then stir in the vanilla.
  3. Mix the flour, baking powder, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and allspice in a bowl.
  4. Beat the egg into the warm butter mixture, then stir it into the dry ingredients.
  5. Pour the batter into the pan and bake for 40 to 45 minutes, until a tester comes out clean.
  6. Cool the loaf in the pan for 10 minutes, then transfer it to a rack.

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