Servings: cake/bread
Easy and Spiced Beer Cake
Beer cake is the perfect autumn/winter cake and quite appropriate for Christmas. It is filled with many of the warming spices of Christmas, it is moist inside and has a caramelized surface... the whole house smells like Christmas when it's in the oven, and it tastes of childhood and winter memories...
Equipment
- Bread Form
- Hand Mixer
Ingredients
- 450 gram Brown sugar
- 500 gram Wheat Flour
- 7.2 gram Baking Soda
- 4.8 gram Baking Soda
- 2.85 gram Ground ginger
- 5.2 gram Cinnamon
- 2.1 gram Ground cloves
- 2 gram Cardamom ground
- 75 gram Dates dried pitted, finely chopped
- 50 gram Walnut Kernels chopped
- 350 gram Beer dark
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celsius (347 degrees Fahrenheit) (fan).
- Mix all the ingredients in a bowl with a hand mixer until you get a smooth batter.
- Put the batter in a loaf pan lined with baking paper and bake for about 1 hour. Check by inserting a toothpick into the cake; if it comes out clean, the cake is done.
- Can be served warm, but also tastes wonderful cooled and keeps delicious for 2-3 days.