Quick & Easy Gingerbread Loaf

Ingredients: 

175g unsalted butter

200g caster sugar

3 tablespoons golden syrup

250ml milk

250g plain flour

1 tablespoon ground ginger

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Optional handful of Sultanas

Preheat the oven Gas 4

Grease and flour a loaf tin. Combine butter, sugar, golden syrup and milk.  Bring to the boil then remove from heat.

Sieve flour, bicarbonate of soda, ginger, and allspice into a bowl.  Add the boiled mixture, stirring until just blended.

Pour the mix into the loaf tin. Turn down the oven (gas mark 2 - 2 1/2), bake for approximately 1 hour or until the top of the loaf springs back when lightly touched and if you put a knife into the center when removed it comes out clean.