Dutch Spiced Breakfast Cake (Ontbijtkoek)

Ingredients

• 2 cupsself-rising flour
• 1 1/4 cupsdark brown soft sugar
• 1 cupmilk, heated to almost boiling
• 1 tbspginger, ground
• 1/2 tspcardamom, ground
• 1 tspbaking powder
• salt, a pinch
• 1 3/4 ozpearl sugar

Method

1. 1

   Preheat the oven to 320°F. Line a cake pan with parchment paper.

2. 2

   Mix the flour, dark brown sugar, ginger, cardamom, baking powder and a pinch of salt together in a large bowl. Keep the pearl sugar aside — it goes on top later.

3. 3

   Heat the milk in a small saucepan until almost boiling. Pour slowly into the dry ingredients while whisking. Stop mixing as soon as the batter is smooth — do not overmix.

4. 4

   Pour into the prepared cake pan. Sprinkle pearl sugar over the top.

5. 5

   Bake for about 1 hour. Start checking at 50 minutes — when a cake tester comes out clean the cake is done; if it doesn't, give it a little longer.