Little Nan’s Ginger Loafcake
Posted by: Liz at 12:49 pm, July 19th, 2009
Also known as Little Nan’s Ginger Cakeloaf.
Ingredients
175g butter
3 cups self raising flour
3 tbsp golden syrup
1 1/2 cups milk
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
3 tsp powdered ginger
1 1/2 tsp mixed spice
2 tsp (level) baking soda
How to make it happen
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
Mix all of the dry ingredients together – except for your baking soda.
Melt the butter, syrup, and milk together in a saucepan on low heat. When the butter is completely melted, add the baking soda and stir/whisk with a fork. It will go all fizzy. Just make sure it doesn’t end up all over your stove top, like mine did.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix good like with a wooden spoon. It’ll go all gooey/doughy. Now is a good time to taste test the mixture. Maybe one or two spoonfuls. Or more.
Put whatever mixture is left over from your taste testing into a loaf pan, and put into the oven.
Nan’s recipe said to cook for an hour, but I think that’s based on ye olde ovens, so it only really needs about 50 mins. But stick a butter knife or something in it to make sure it’s cooked all the way through.
It’s very nice sliced and spread with butter.
Jarod’s edit: this cake would taste awesome if it didn’t taste like ginger.
