Bake this spiced toffee apple and ginger cake, then check out our classic ginger cake, Jamaican ginger cake, gingerbread and other ginger bakes.
Ingredients
- plain flour 250g
- bicarbonate of soda 1 ½ tsp
- ground ginger 2 tsp
- mixed spice 1 tsp
- golden caster sugar 200g
- soft light brown sugar 75g
- eggs 2
- vegetable oil 150ml
- Bramley apple sauce 350g
- toffee sauce to serve
APPLE TOPPING
- butter 25g, plus extra for the tin
- soft light brown sugar 2 tbsp
- eating apples 2, peeled and cut into wedges
Method
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Step 1
To make the apple topping, heat the butter in a pan and stir in the brown sugar until melted, then add the apples and toss. Leave to cool a little.
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Step 2
Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter and line the base of a deep 22-23cm square cake tin. Mix the flour, bicarb, ginger and mixed spice in a bowl. Put the sugars, eggs, oil and apple sauce in a separate bowl, and whisk to combine. Gradually add the dry ingredients, beating until combined.
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Step 3
Spoon the mixture into the tin. Arrange the apple pieces and drizzle the sauce from the pan on top and bake for 40-45 minutes. Keep an eye on it and cover the cake with foil for the final 5-10 minutes if it’s browning too much.
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Step 4
Cool the cake in the tin for 10 minutes then turn out. Serve warm as a pudding or at room temperature. Drizzle with toffee sauce to serve.
Nutritional Information
- Kcals 352
- Fat 15.5g
- Saturates 2.3g
- Carbs 49.1g
- Sugars 33g
- Fibre 1.4g
- Protein 3.5g
- Salt 0.4g
