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Gingerbread

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    16

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
World's Best Cakes: 250 great cakes from Raspberry Genoise to Chocolate Kugelhopf

By Roger Pizey

Published 2013

  • About

Europeans have been eating gingerbreads since the first travellers came bearing its recipe in the first century ad. Originally baked and eaten for ginger’s digestive powers, we now eat gingerbread whenever it takes our fancy. It’s an easy-to-throw together cake but always makes a crowd-pleasing tray bake - with or without icing.

Ingredients

  • 180 g ( oz) butter, softened
  • 150 g (

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 170°C/325°F/gas mark 3, and grease and line a 23cm (9in) square cake tin with baking parchment.
  2. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, and add the eggs one at a time.
  3. Add the sifted flour, bicarbonate

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