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Classic gingerbread
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- + Cooling
- Easy
- Makes 9 squares
Ingredients
- 150g slightly salted butter, cubed, plus extra for the tin
- 70g caster sugar
- 70g demerara sugar, plus 2 tbsp to sprinkle
- 175g plain flour
- 50g fine oats
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tbsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 50g crystallised ginger
Method
- STEP 1
Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter and line the base and sides of a 20cm brownie tin with baking paper. Mix together the sugars, flour, oats, bicarb and spices in a large bowl. Rub in the butter then stir in the crystallised ginger. Press the mixture into the tin and sprinkle with 2 tbsp demerara sugar. Bake for 25 minutes, then cut into 9 squares and leave to cool in the tin. Will keep in an airtight container for a week.
