Parkin Cake

Prepare

1. 🥄Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas
2. 🔥Grease a deep 22cm/9in square cake tin and line with baking parchment.

Steps

1. 🔥Beat the egg and milk together with a fork.
2. 🧂Gently melt the syrup, treacle, sugar and butter together in a large pan until the sugar has dissolved.
3. 🍳Remove from the heat.

Prepare

1. 🧂Mix together the oatmeal, flour and ginger and stir into the syrup mixture, followed by the egg and milk.
2. 🍳Pour the mixture into the tin and bake for 50 mins - 1 hr until the cake feels firm and a little crusty on top.

Steps

1. 🍳Cool in the tin
2. 🫇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.