Sticky gingerbread cake with chocolate espresso frosting
Ingredients
200g unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing
300 g dark brown sugar
150 g black treacle
4 balls stem ginger in syrup, finely chopped
2 tbsp stem ginger syrup
2 large free-range eggs, beaten
200 g plain flour
Contents from 1 coffee capsule
1/2 tsp sea salt
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cinnamon
225 ml plain yogurt
Chocolate frosting
210 g double cream
1 tbsp soft brown sugar
140 g 74% chocolate
1 espresso shot
1 sheet of edible goldleaf
Method
- Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan. Generously grease a 1.5 litre Bundt tin. 
- Gently heat the butter, sugar and treacle in a saucepan, stirring occasionally, until the butter and sugar have melted. Remove from the heat and whisk in the chopped stem ginger, ginger syrup and eggs. 
- Sift the flour, ground coffee, salt, bicarbonate of soda and spices into a large bowl. Pour in the melted sugar/butter mixture and yoghurt and stir with a whisk. Pour into the greased bundt tin and lightly tap to displace any bubbles. 
- Bake for 45-50 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. 
- Heat the cream and sugar in a small saucepan, stirring occasionally. Place the chocolate in a heatproof bowl. When bubbles appear around the edge of the cream, pour over the chocolate. Leave undisturbed for a couple of minutes, then stir to mix. Let down the mixture with a little espresso, to achieve the desired pouring consistency. Drizzle over the cake and decorate with gold leaf. 
 
                        