Ingredients

• 4oz granulated sugar
• 4oz softened butter
• 4oz self-raising flour
• 2 large eggs

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 180°C
2. Place sugar and butter in a large bowl and stir until light and fluffy.
3. Sift the flour into the bowl.
4. Make a well in the centre and add the eggs.
5. Mix until combined.
6. Line bottom of 9 inch round cake tin with grease-proof paper.
7. Place in over and cook for 35-40 minutes.

I’ve always enjoyed baking and have always tended to bake based on the recipes I got from my mother. Well, I recently decided that I wanted to do a proper gingerbread, but I didn’t have a recipe. I did some looking around and found one in the Food section of the Daily Telegraph website.

I’m posting the recipe here so that I can easily find it (I have a large sceptical streak which makes me concerned the recipe a disappear, or have the permalink changed, at some point) and to record any adjustments I may make.

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