Dark Molasses Gingerbread
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
-
1 loaf
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 90 g butter
- 360 g dark cane sugar
- 140 ml molasses
- 60 ml golden syrup
- 2 eggs
- 150 ml milk
- 250 g flour
- 3 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 125 g walnut pieces
- 250 ml water
directions
- Preheat oven to 140ºC. Grease a 32cm x 22cm x 5cm baking tin with butter then line with non-stick baking paper.
- In a medium saucepan melt the butter, 60g of the sugar, molasses, and golden syrup. In a bowl, whisk the eggs with the milk and set aside.
- Sieve the flour, spices and soda into another bowl.
- Pour the eggs and syrup into the flour and whisk until smooth. Stir in walnuts and pour into the tin.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes until a skewer comes out with moist crumbs.
- While the cake is still warm, bring the water and remaining sugar to a simmer. Pour over the cake and let the syrup soak inches.
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I'm a med school student that loves to cook. You might have guessed though that being a college student doesn't give me a whole lot of money to spend on ingredients and such. So instead, whenever I go home, I try to cook something new for parents.