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Sticky Gingerbread Cake

Home   Recipes for Pulses, Grains, Seeds, Flakes, Flour, Ferments...   Sticky Gingerbread Cake
Baking British Malted Wheat Flour Rye Rye Flour

by Amy Elysia December 16, 2024

This recipe combines malted wheat and rye flour to create a rich sticky ginger cake, reminiscent of Jamaican Gingerbread or Yorkshire Parkin. Rye flour is often associated with heavy dense bread, but this gingerbread is light and delicate, but still comforting.

This recipe from Amy Oboussier was inspired by a sudden craving for the kind of sticky gingerbread cake served by her late grandmother, who loved all things ginger - ginger beer, ginger biscuits, chocolate-coated stem ginger and ginger cake.

Always looking to add depth of flavour with wholemeal flour, Amy swapped out white flour for malted wheat and rye. This gingerbread also uses molasses instead of treacle, which is less cloyingly sweet with a deep malty flavour and notes of burnt caramel and prune, pairing excellently with ginger.

This recipe makes a generous amount, almost certainly necessary when everyone comes back for second helpings. But if you prefer you can halve the quantities and bake in a loaf tin.

The recipe also draws inspiration from Regula Ysewijn's brilliant book Oats in the North, Wheat in the South - essential reading for anyone interested in British baking!

Ingredients

  • 230g Brown Sugar
  • 230g Butter
  • 200g Molasses
  • 2 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
  • 3 tsp Ground Ginger
  • 170g Rye Flour
  • 170g Malted Wheat Flour
  • ½ tsp Salt
  • 210 ml Milk
  • 2 Eggs

For the Glaze

  • 75ml Water 
  • 75g White Sugar 
  • 4 Slices of Fresh Ginger 

Method

  1. Preheat your oven to 160C and line a 20cm square cake tin with baking paper.
  2. Over a low heat melt the sugar and butter while whisking until melted and combined, remove from the heat and allow to cool slightly.
  3. In a mixing bowl add the remaining cake ingredients and roughly mix. Add the sugar-butter mixture and mix well until smooth and combined.
  4. Pour into your baking tin and place in the oven to bake for 45 to 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
  5. Meanwhile make the glaze by adding the ingredients to a small pan and bringing the boil. Set aside.
  6. Remove from the oven, brush the top with the ginger glaze straight away  and allow to cool for 5 minutes. Then pull the gingerbread out of the tin using the baking paper. Cut into generous squares, using a serrated knife and serve warm or once cooled completely store in an airtight container.
  7. Keep for up to a week, the gingerbread will become richer and sticker over time, yum!
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