Dutch Spiced Breakfast Cake (Ontbijtkoek)

Ingredients

Self-raising Flour

250g Self-raising Flour

Dark Brown Soft Sugar

250g Dark Brown Soft Sugar

Milk

250g Milk

Sugar

4 Sugar

Ginger

1 tablespoon Ginger

Cardamom

1/2 tsp Cardamom

Baking Powder

1 tsp Baking Powder

Salt

Pinch Salt

Instructions

1- Preheat the oven to 160˚C (320˚F) Line a cake pan with parchment paper and set aside.

2- Mix all the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.

3- Place the milk in a small saucepan and heat it until it is almost boiling but not quite.

4- Pour the milk slowly into the dry ingredients while whisking.

5- Don't overmix! As soon as it is combined to a smooth batter you pour it into the cake pan.

6- Sprinkle the pearl sugar over the top and bake it in the oven for about 1 hour.

7- Check after about 50 minutes how the cake is progressing.

8- If a cake tester comes out clean the cake it cooked.

9- If not let it cook for a little longer.