The Ex Expat

31 August 2012

As promised, here is my recipe for the sticky ginger cake I included in my Post aus Meiner Küche picnic parcel. As it’s name implies, it’s very sticky, and will probably leave you on a major sugar rush, but once you’ve tasted this  cake you’ll be baking it again and again. The original recipe for this came from a Sainsbury’s magazine, but I’ve had to some major adjustments to make it gluten free and substitute ingredients not available here in Germany.

Ingredients

• 200ml milk
• 4 tablespoons molasses*
• 100g butter
• 50g gluten free maize flour**
• 200g dark brown sugar, muscovado if you can find it
• 200g porridge oats
• 4 teaspoons ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 heaped teaspoons baking powder

*For the molasses, here in Germany I used Zuckerrübensirup (sugar beet syrup). In the UK you could use treacle. 

**You can use plain flour instead of gluten free if you don’t have any allergies. It’s not actually a gluten free cake as it includes oats, but it’s wheat free, which serves me well.

Directions

• Preheat your oven to 180°C.
• In a pan, bring the milk to the boil with the butter and molasses, stirring constantly until everything has melted.
• Sieve the flour and baking powder into a bowl and mix in the sugar, oats and spices.
• Stir the warm ingredients in to the dry ingredients until everything is fully mixed.
• Line a baking tin with grease proof paper and pour in the mixture. 
• Bake for 45 -50 minutes then leave to cool completely.
• Lift the cake out of the tin by the edges of the grease proof paper and cut into squares.
• Enjoy with a cup of Earl Grey tea :-)

Don’t worry if the cake is a bit crumbly, it’s meant to be that way. I find that the middle pieces are always a bit more moist than the edge pieces, and are easier to eat with a fork.