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Sticky Date Gingerbread

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This was one of the first cakes I made for this book: a wonderfully sticky, rich loaf cake. You can substitute soft dark brown sugar for the date syrup if you wish, but the date syrup gives a wonderfully intense depth of flavour to the cake, and incidentally makes it suitable for diabetics.

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Ingredients

olive oil
date syrup
medium free-range eggs
self-raising flour
baking powder
ground ginger
Medjool dates, torn or chopped

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