Gingerbread & Spiced Milk Chocolate Ganache

Ingredients

200g Margarine or Softened Butter
200g Brown Sugar
200g Black Treacle
285ml Milk
10g Bicarbonate of Soda
2 Whole Eggs
300g Self-Raising Flour
30g Powdered Ginger
5g Cinnamon Powder
30g Crystallised Ginger Chips
400g KerryMaid Whipping Cream Alternative
1 Cinnamon Stick
1 Clove
Pinch of Ground Nutmeg
400g Cacao Barry Ambre Java 36% Milk Chocolate
50g Candied Ginger Cubes

This sweetly spiced and decadently chocolatey sponge cake recipe comes from Callebaut chef Beverley Dunkley. Pairing warming spices with a rich milk chocolate ganache creates an indulgent, autumnal experience that would pair perfectly with a cup of tea or coffee! Make 16 miniature loaf cakes, or one big delicious cake - the choice is yours!

How to Make Gingerbread & Spiced Milk Chocolate Ganache:

For the Cake

Place the sugar, butter or margarine, and treacle into a sauce pan and warm till the sugar dissolves.
Warm the milk and add in the bicarbonate of soda, combine well and then beat in the eggs
Sieve the dry ingredients together and fold through the wet mixture
Fold in the crystallised ginger chips
Pipe into moulds and bake at 150 degrees until the cake mix springs back when gently pressed

For the Ganache

Bring the cream to the boil and add the spices, allow to infuse before passing through a sieve
Reheat the cream, then pour over the Ambre Java milk chocolate and emulsify
Allow to cool to 28 degrees and then aerate
Cut a V into the top of the gingerbread and pipe in the spiced ganache
Decorate with candied ginger mini cubes, and serve!

Enjoyed this recipe? Save your dried spices and use Spice Drops instead. Highly potent and with a long, 3-year shelf life, these little bottles of concentrated flavour are a chocolatier or baker's dream! A few drops of Pumpkin Spices would give your ganache all the autumnal flavour it needs.

Approximate costs

£17.47

Makes 16 cakes

£1.09

Per cake

Please note: All costs are based on current Keylink List prices and up-to-date supermarket prices for non-Keylink products. These are given in good faith. These recipe costs could be lower if you benefit from Keylink discounts.

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