Parkin is the perfect sweet ginger traybake, ideal for bonfire parties and Halloween.
Ingredients
- For the parkin
- 110g/4oz
self-raising flour - pinch
salt - 2 tbsp
ground ginger - ½ tsp ground
nutmeg - ½ tsp
mixed spice - 75g/2½oz oat flakes
- 175g/6oz
golden syrup - 50g/1¾oz
black treacle - 110g/4oz unsalted
butter - 110g/4oz soft
brown sugar - 1 free-range
egg, beaten - 2 tsp
milk
- 110g/4oz
- For the cider and golden syrup sauce
- 200g/7oz
golden syrup - 50ml/2fl oz
apple juice - 1 tsp
mixed spice - 50ml/2fl oz
cider ice cream, to serve
- 200g/7oz
Preparation method
For the parkin, preheat the oven to 140C/275F/Gas 1 and butter a 20cm/8in square cake tin.
Sieve the flour, salt, ginger, nutmeg and mixed spice together into a large bowl. Mix in the oat flakes.
Put the syrup, treacle, butter and sugar into a small saucepan and melt over a gentle heat. Bring up to a simmer but do not boil. When the butter and sugar have melted, pour into the flour mixture and stir to combine.
Mix in the beaten egg and milk to create a soft, almost pouring consistency batter.
Pour into the buttered tin and bake for 50 minutes, or until firm in the centre.
Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin for 5-10 minutes before turning out and cutting into squares.
For the sauce, place all the ingredients in a saucepan, bring to the boil and simmer until a syrup consistency is formed.
Serve a square of parkin on each plate, then spoon over the syrup. Finish with a scoop of ice cream.