Retro cake recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has butter, egg, milk, golden syrup, treacle, brown sugar, oatmeal, self-raising flour and ground ginger.
Parkin
Course: Retro cake
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Butter: 200g butter, plus extra for greasing
- Egg: 1 large egg
- Milk: 4 tbsp milk
- Golden Syrup: 200g golden syrup
- Treacle: 85g treacle
- Brown Sugar: 85g light soft brown sugar
- Oatmeal: 100g medium oatmeal
- Self Raising Flour: 250g self-raising flour
- Ground Ginger: 1 tbsp ground ginger
Directions
- Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Butter a deep 22cm square cake tin and line with baking parchment. Beat the egg and milk together with a fork.
- Gently melt the syrup, treacle, sugar and butter together in a large pan until the sugar has dissolved. Remove from the heat. Mix together the oatmeal, flour and ginger and stir into the syrup mixture, followed by the egg and milk.
- Pour the mixture into the tin and bake for 50 mins - 1 hr until the cake feels firm and a little crusty on top. Cool in the tin then wrap in more parchment and foil.Keep for up to five days before eating if you can - it'll become softer and stickier the longer you leave it, up to two weeks.
