Parkin Cake
Dark, sticky oatmeal-and-treacle gingerbread — Yorkshire's bonfire-night cake.
- Total
- 70 min
- Serves
- 4
Yorkshire's sticky bonfire-night cake: oatmeal, treacle and golden syrup baked into a dense, dark, gingery loaf that turns moist and chewy after a few days' rest. Parkin is autumn in cake form — warming, treacly and best with a cup of tea. Patience improves it, but few can wait that long.
Ingredients
- 200g Butter
- 1 large Egg
- 4 tbs Milk
- 200g Golden Syrup
- 85g Black Treacle
- 85g Brown Sugar
- 100g Oatmeal
- 250g Self-raising Flour
- 1 tbs Ground Ginger
Instructions
- Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Grease a deep 22cm/9in 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 and keep for 3-5 days before eating if you can – it’ll become softer and stickier the longer you leave it, up to 2 weeks.
Nutrition (per serving)
- Calories
- 450
- Protein
- 5.5 g
- Fat
- 20 g
- Carbs
- 66 g
Adapted from bbcgoodfood.com. Rewritten and re-photographed by MealIdeas.
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