Mary Berry's Ginger & Treacle Spiced Tray Bake Recipe

Name: Mary Berry's Ginger & Treacle Spiced Tray Bake Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 45 min
Ingredients: 1/2 cup Unsalted Butter (115 grams); 1/2 cup Brown Sugar (100 grams); 1/2 cup Black Treacle (113 grams); 11/4 cup All Purpose Flour / Maida (150 grams); 2 tsp Baking Powder; 1 tsp Cinnamon powder; 1/4 tsp Nutmeg powder; 1/2 tsp Ginger powder; 1/8 tsp Clove powder; 2 Eggs; 2 tblsp Milk; a pinch Salt; 2 tblsp Candied Ginger (chopped finely); 1/2 cup Icing Sugar; 1 tblsp Milk; 2 tblsp Candied Ginger (chopped finely)

Last Updated On: Apr 14, 2025 by Aarthi

222

Jump to Recipe Pin Recipe

"Ginger & Treacle Spiced Tray Bake Recipe is moist and spiced cake which has a perfect texture. The cake itself is very soft from the addition of treacle. The perfect cake to be baked for any festive occasions like christmas, thanksgiving, halloween."

Mary Berry's Ginger & Treacle Spiced Tray Bake Recipe with step wise pictures.

This cake is so delicious. The cake itself is so moist and mildly spiced with candied ginger. If you have you can use stem ginger too.

This is from mary berry cookbook. I am hooked to the recipe book "mary berry 100 sweet treats and puds". All the recipes are awesome and i am trying each and everyone here. This recipe is one from that and it is so easy to make. It taste delicious too. Specially adults will love it.

I have already made quite a few of mary berry recipes,

fork cookies, lime lattice biscuits, shrewsbury biscuits, orange drop scones, chocolate ganache cupcakes, double ginger muffins

I used Homemade Treacle Recipe. It can be hard to find in the store, so make it yourself at home. Homemade Treacle stores well at room temp. Homemade treacle can be used for making spiced cake, gingerbread cake as well.

Treacle Scones Recipe

Recipe Source: Epicurious Super delicious and caramely scones flavoured with treacle. I used my homemade treacle in this recipe which gave very delicious taste.

Check out this recipe

How to Make Incredibly Moist Spiced Cake

take butter, brown sugar in a bowl and mix well.
add in treacle and mix well. You can use homemade treacle for better flavour.
now add in egg and fold.
add in baking powder, salt, spice powders and mix well.
add in flour and milk and fold.
finally add in candied chopped ginger and fold gently.
spoon it into prepared pan and bake.
if you fancy some icing, then make some by mixing icing sugar and milk.
pour icing over cake and sprinkle with some chopped candied ginger.
serve

HOW TO MAKE PERFCT GINGERBREAD CAKE:

1)Never ever over mix the batter. Fold the batter gently. Over mixing will make it dense.

2)Glaze is optional. You can skip if you want to.

3)I used homemade treacle in this recipe. Here is the recipe for Homemade Treacle

4)Use softened butter for even mixing.

5)Use finely chopped candied ginger so the ginger evenly distributes.

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.

SIMILAR TREACLE CAKE RECIPES

Check out similar cake recipes,

Strawberry Sparkle Cake

Mascarpone Strawberry Cheesecake

Strawberry Shortcake
6 Layer Rainbow Cake
Eggless Chocolate Cake
Devils Cake
Triple Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Chip Pound Cake

📖 Get Recipe

Pictorial:

1)Take butter in a bowl. I used unsalted softened butter. Soft butter adds nice flavour to the cake.

2)Add in brown sugar. Brown sugar adds nice caramel flavour to the cake.

3)I used my homemade treacle, it adds nice caramel flavour to the cake. Recipe here

4)Mix this well till it is creamy.

5)Add in egg. Try and use room temp eggs for even blending and baking.

6)Mix the egg into the cake. The mixture will look curdled but it is not a issue.

7)Add in spice powders and salt

8)Add in baking powder

9)Add milk. Use room temp whole milk. You could use almond milk or soy milk too.

10)Mix well. At this point the mixture may look curdled. But it is not a issue.

11)Add in all purpose flour / maida.

12)Fold gently

13)Add candied ginger. If you have stem ginger use that

14)Pour in baking pan

15)Bake for 25 to 35 mins

16)Remove and cool completely

17)Make the glaze. Take icing sugar in a bowl

18)Add milk. If you are using stem ginger, use the syrup.

19)Mix well

20)Pour this over the cake.

21)Top with more ginger

22)Slice and serve

23)This particular cake is super moist and yummy.

If you have any questions not covered in this post and if you need help, leave me a comment or mail me @aarthi198689@gmail.com and I'll help as soon as I can.

Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest ,Youtube and Twitter for more Yummy Tummy inspiration.

IF YOU MAKE THIS RECIPE OR ANYTHING FROM YUMMY TUMMY, MAKE SURE TO POST IT AND TAG ME SO I CAN SEE ALL OF YOUR CREATIONS!! #YUMMYTUMMYAARTHI AND @YUMMYTUMMYAARTHI ON INSTAGRAM!

222

About Aarthi

Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

Comments