Gingerbread Loaf

  Hello everybody!

  This week’s blog post is a bake! Some of you may be thinking it’s too early for gingerbread but I can explain! I went to Zara Home yesterday and every year I buy a gingerbread candle for Christmas and when I smelt it I was instantly in a festive mood and wanted everything gingerbread! Hence why I baked a gingerbread loaf!

Makes: 1 loaf

Prep time: 8 mins

Cook time: 1 hr

Ingredients

175g unsalted butter

200g caster sugar

3 tablespoons golden syrup 

250ml milk

250g plain flour

1 tablespoon ground ginger 

1 teaspoon ground allspice

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Grease and flour a 20x10cm loaf tin.

2. In a small saucepan, combine the butter, sugar, golden syrup and milk. Bring to the boil, then remove from heat and set aside. Sieve the flour, bicarbonate of soda, ginger and allspice into a large bowl. Stir in the boiled mixture until just blended. Pour the batter into the prepared tin.

3. Turn down the oven to 160 C / Gas 2 1/2 and bake for 1 hour or until the top of the loaf springs back when lightly touched.

That’s all for this week’s blog post! I hope you enjoyed! This bake ticked every box for me and now I feel ssoooo festive! This loaf has such an explosion of flavour and the texture is great and soft. Make sure you wait until it has cooled down to cut it because if it’s too warm it can be crumbly. I will see you next week for another blog post! Love you all! 

  Byyeee!!!!