Stem Ginger and Apple Parkin

Bonfire Night. Forget about Halloween, Bonfire Night is my favourite Autumn event, I love it. I love wrapping up in thick layers, woolly jumpers, coats, hats, gloves, scarves and boots. I love warming myself up with a delicious hot chocolate.  I love feeling the heat from a huge bonfire. I love marvelling at the fireworks with my family and friends as they light up the sky and fill the sky with a bang. I love the crackling fireworks and I love the spiralling high pitched ones. I still love drawing things with sparklers. And this year I also loved enjoying a slice of sticky spiced Parkin and Chai tea afterwards. If you are looking for an Autumn treat to warm you up then I recommend this sweet, sticky spicy cake with sliced apples.

The recipe for this is based on the Waitrose Bonfire Night Parkin recipe but I adapted it my using stem ginger and apples in mine.

You will need:

100g unsalted butter
100g black treacle
200g golden syrup
100g dark brown muscavado sugar
200g self raising flour
2tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
100g oats
1 egg
6tbsp milk
50g stem ginger
1tbsp stem ginger syrup
2 apples, peeled and sliced

Melt the butter, treacle, syrup and sugar in a pan over a gentle heat until melted together. Leave to cool slightly.

Mix the flour, ginger, cinnamon and bicarb together with the oats in a bowl. Add the butter and sugar mixture to this and mix well. Beat the egg with the milk in a jug and add to the cake mix with 1tbsp syrup from the stem ginger. Mix well. Finally add the chopped stem ginger and mix in. Pour the mix into a greased and lined 20x20cm cake tin and place the apple slices on top of the mixture. Bake at 150C for approx 1 hour.

And here is a sparkler picture I made, can you guess what it is??

Enjoy the fireworks if you are off to any this weekend!

Lottie xx

I am entering this into Simple and in Season because Eat the Seasons tells me that apples are still in season this month!