Classic gingerbread

Name: Classic gingerbread
Total time: 45 min
Yield: Makes 9 squares
Ingredients: 150g slightly salted butter, cubed, plus extra for the tin; 70g caster sugar; 70g demerara sugar, plus 2 tbsp to sprinkle; 175g plain flour; 50g fine oats; ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda; 1 tbsp ground ginger; ½ tsp ground nutmeg; ½ tsp ground cinnamon; 50g crystallised ginger

Preparation and cooking time
- Total time45 mins
- + Cooling
Easy
Makes 9 squares

Ingredients

150g slightly salted butter, cubed, plus extra for the tin
70g caster sugar
70g demerara sugar, plus 2 tbsp to sprinkle
175g plain flour
50g fine oats
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tbsp ground ginger
½ tsp ground nutmeg
½ tsp ground cinnamon
50g crystallised ginger

Method

STEP 1
Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter and line the base and sides of a 20cm brownie tin with baking paper. Mix together the sugars, flour, oats, bicarb and spices in a large bowl. Rub in the butter then stir in the crystallised ginger. Press the mixture into the tin and sprinkle with 2 tbsp demerara sugar. Bake for 25 minutes, then cut into 9 squares and leave to cool in the tin. Will keep in an airtight container for a week.