Dutch Spiced Breakfast Cake (Ontbijtkoek)

Dessert · Netherlands classic.

Ingredients

• 250g Self-raising Flour
• 250g Dark Brown Soft Sugar
• 250g Milk
• 4 Sugar
• 1 tablespoon Ginger
• 1/2 tsp Cardamom
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• Pinch Salt

Method

1. Preheat the oven — Preheat the oven to 160˚C (320˚F) Line a cake pan with parchment paper and set aside.
2. Mix together — Mix all the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
3. Bring to a boil — Place the milk in a small saucepan and heat it until it is almost boiling but not quite.
4. Whisk — Pour the milk slowly into the dry ingredients while whisking.
5. Mix together — Don't overmix! As soon as it is combined to a smooth batter you pour it into the cake pan.
6. Bake — Sprinkle the pearl sugar over the top and bake it in the oven for about 1 hour.
7. Continue cooking — Check after about 50 minutes how the cake is progressing.
8. Continue cooking — If a cake tester comes out clean the cake it cooked.
9. Continue cooking — If not let it cook for a little longer.

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