MOIST GINGERBREAD CAKE

a slightly sticky loaf cake flavoured with ginger and topped with crystallised ginger for some bite!

Time: 55 minutes

Number Of Ingredients: 10

Ingredients: unsalted butter,applesauce,egg,unsulphured molasses,golden syrup,ground ginger,ground cinnamon,ground cloves,all-purpose flour,crystallized ginger

Steps:

1. preheat the oven to 350°
2. f grease a loaf tin with a little vegetable oil and line with baking paper
3. in a large saucepan over a medium heat , gently stir the butter , sugar , syrup and black treacle together until the butter is melted
4. remove from the heat and stir in the cloves , cinnamon , ginger and bicarbonate of soda
5. beat in the egg and pumpkin pure , then the malted milk powder , and finally stir in the flour
6. pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake for 10 minutes
7. after 10 minutes , quickly pull the tin out of the oven and sprinkle the chopped crystallised ginger down the centre , then return it to the oven for a further 35 minutes
8. let the loaf cool for 10 minutes in the tin before transferring it to a wire rack to cool completely

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