Ginger Crunch
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
20
ingredients
- 125 g butter, softened
- 125 g white sugar (preferably caster sugar, but not essential)
- 220 g plain flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
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Icing (Frosting)
- 60 g butter, chopped
- 125 g icing sugar
- 1 tablespoon golden syrup
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 10 pieces crystallized ginger
directions
- Preheat oven to 180C (350F).
- Using a mixer or a food processor, cream the butter and sugar.
- Add sifted flour, ground ginger and baking powder and mix well until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs- you can do this with your fingers if you like, but I do it in the food processor.
- If using a food processor, scrape down sides once or twice to ensure all butter is mixed in with the flour.
- Tip mixture into a well-greased shallow sided baking tin measuring approximately 27cm x 17cm (10 1/2" x 6 1/2") or a 20cm (8") square.
- Using your fingers or the back of a fork, spread mixture evenly then press down lightly until just firm.
- Don't press too hard or the mixture will set like concrete.
- Bake on the centre shelf of the oven for 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned.
- During the last few minutes of baking, combine all the icing (frosting) ingredients in a small saucepan and melt over a low-medium heat, stirring constantly.
- Remove the biscuit base from the oven and immediately pour hot icing mixture as evenly as possible over the base.
- Use a bread knife to spread the icing evenly over the base.
- Now, cut the pieces of crystallised ginger in half and space them out evenly on top.
- Slice into approximately 20 squares while still warm.
- Remove baking tin when cool and store in an airtight tin.
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Reviews
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"Fantastic!" my mom says as she reaches for another piece, "tell Kooka this is definitely a 5 star recipe." I don't think I need to add much more, other than I did make a couple of changes. Just used 60g of sugar for the base, and coarsely chopped the crystalised ginger, and sprinkled it all over the icing. Thanks for a wonderful recipe Kooka!
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