Today is a very special day, its my Mums birthday!

When it comes to baked goods she loves anything ginger, so to celebrate her special day I made and gave her this Spiced Ginger Cake.

The rich flavour comes from the dark brown sugar and butter based sponge, spiced with ginger and mixed spice. The addition finely diced candied ginger speckled through the loaf adds to the great flavour and texture!

INGREDIENTS

3 Eggs

200g Dark Brown Sugar

200g Self Raising Flour

200g Salted Butter

3 Teaspoons Ginger

2 Teaspoons Mixed Spice

120g Candied Ginger

METHOD

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Weigh out the sugar, flour and butter. Place them into a large mixing bowl.

Add them with the eggs, ground ginger and mixed spice to your mixing bowl.

Wisk until the batter is well combined and smooth.

Dice the candied ginger and add it to the cake batter. Mix it through the batter.

Grease the loaf tin and place in a loaf tin liner.

Add your batter to the baking tin. Smooth the batter to an even layer. Make a dip in the middle to get a nice shape to the cake as it rises.

Put the cake in the oven for approximately 40 minutes, take the cake out and cover with tin foil, then place back into the oven for another 20 minutes.

Test to see if it is done by inserting a skewer into the cake and wiggling before bringing it out, if the cake is done the skewer will come out clean, if its not ready batter will stick to your skewer.

Bring the cake out the oven, take out of the cake tin and place on a cooling rack to cool.

Enjoy!