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Sticky stem gingerbread cake
Tins, packets and jars
300g/10oz
plain flour
150g/5½oz
golden syrup
Cooking ingredients
2 tbsp
ground ginger
(or according to taste – this makes for quite a hot cake)
½ tsp
cayenne pepper
(or more if you want it very hot)
½ tsp ground
cinnamon
½ tsp ground
allspice
¼ tsp
mace
generous pinch ground
cloves
125g/4½ oz dark brown muscovado
sugar
200g/7oz black
treacle
1 heaped tsp
bicarbonate of soda
1 jar
stem ginger
, drained, washed and very finely chopped (optional)
Dairy, eggs and chilled
150g/5½oz
butter
250ml/9fl oz
milk
2 large free-range
eggs
, lightly beaten
Other
50g/1¾ oz syrup from the jar of stem ginger (optional – replace with more golden syrup or honey if not using stem ginger)
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