CHOCOLATE AND GINGER CAKE

Chocolate and Ginger Cake image

Provided by mrsannachild

Time 1h30m

Yield Makes Cake

Number Of Ingredients 16

125g butter
200g molasses or treacle or dark brown sugar, or use half and half
150ml milk
1 egg
about 2 thumbs of fresh ginger chopped finely
150g wholemeal flour
50g ground almonds
2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/4 tsp cinnamon
pinch nutmeg
pinch smoked sweet paprika
pinch salt
2 tsp ground ginger
1 shake of cayenne or hot paprika or chilli powder
100g dark chocolate broken into small chunks
2 tbsp cocoa

Steps:

Grease 23cm sq appoximately baking tin and get the oven going at 160C.
In a pan melt butter, sugars and treacles. Take off the heat and stir in the milk and chopped fresh ginger. Gradually stir in beaten egg.
Put all the dry ingrediants in a bowl except for the choclate, if you don't have any ground almonds just substitute for flour. Mix the Liquid mixture into the cry ingrediants.
Stir in the Chocolate pieces and pour into the baking tin.
Bake for about 1 hour and don't open the oven until this time has passed otherwise it will sink. Check it's cooked with a knife in the middle.