Cakes and Gateaux Recipes - Banana Ginger Parkin

Ingredients

• 200g plain flour

• 10ml bicarbonate of soda

• 10ml ground ginger

• 150g medium oatmeal

• 50g dark muscovado sugar

• 75g sunflower margarine

• 150g golden syrup

• 1 egg, beaten

• 3 ripe bananas, mashed

• 75g icing sugar

• stem ginger, to decorate (optional)

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Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 160'C/325"F/Gas 3. Grease and line an 18 x 28cm cake tin.

2. Sift together the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger, then stir in the oatmeal. Melt the sugar, margarine and sump in a saucepan, then stir into the flour mixture. Beat in the egg and mashed bananas

3. Spoon into the tin and bake for about 1 hour, or until firm to the touch. Allow to cool in the tin, then turn out and cut into squares.

4. Sift the icing sugar into a bowl and stir in just enough water to make a smooth, many icing. Drizzle the icing over each square and top with a piece of stem ginger, if you like.