Seasonal recipe development: Ginger, Apple & Chocolate Traybake
A cosy apple traybake with dark chocolate & stem ginger. Seasonal recipe development for independent food brands
When creating content as a seasonal recipe developer and stylist for magazines, I love showing how simple, thoughtful ingredients can be turned into something really special. This particular bake was a seasonal recipe I developed for 91 Editions, and it is a beautiful example of how versatile food content can be.
Ginger, Apple & Chocolate Traybake
A moist spiced cake with dark chocolate chunks, ground cinnamon and ginger, plus chopped stem ginger in syrup for some extra spice. Topped with sliced apples and demerara sugar.
Ingredients
200g Plain flour
1 ½ tsp Bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Ground cinnamon
3 tsp Ground ginger
150g Coconut oil
150g Dark brown sugar
80g Diced stem ginger in syrup
85g Dark chocolate finely chopped into flakes
180ml Sparkling water
5 Small apples peeled and cored
1 tbsp Demerara sugar
Instructions
Line a 20 x 20cm tin with baking paper and preheat the oven to 160C.
Stir together the dry ingredients, saving 1 tsp of ground ginger for later.
Melt the coconut oil and brown sugar in a saucepan over a medium heat, then stir through the diced ginger.
Mix the melted oil, sugar and ginger with the dry ingredients until combined. Then stir through the chopped chocolate and pour in the sparkling water. Mix everything until you have a smooth cake batter.
Cut your apples into 1cm slices. Pour the cake batter into the tin evenly then decorate the top by layering the sliced apples. Drizzle a teaspoon or two of the ginger syrup then sprinkle the remaining teaspoon of ground ginger and the demerara sugar over the top.
Bake in the oven for 45 minutes or until the skewer comes out clear. Either serve while it’s still warm or once it’s cooled with your favourite creamy side, I like oat crème fraîche.
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