Gingerbread with fried apple and mascarpone

Babiche Martens

Ingredients

125 g	Butter
¼ cup	Brown sugar
½ cup	Golden syrup
1 cup	Plain flour (Main)
1 tsp	Baking powder
1	Egg, beaten
2 tsp	Ground ginger
1 pinch	Salt
1 cup	Milk
4 tsp	Butter
1 tsp	Baking soda
2	Granny Smith apples, cored and sliced into rounds (Main)
2 tsp	Grapeseed oil
1	Mascarpone, to serve

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 180C. Grease and line a loaf tin.
2. Cream the butter, sugar and golden syrup until light and pale. Mix in the beaten egg.
3. Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and ginger. Gently fold into the creamed mixture.
4. Dissolve the baking soda in the milk and add.
5. Spoon into the loaf tin and bake for approximately 35-40 minutes or until the top of the cake springs back when lightly touched.
6. Leave for 5 minutes before turning out on to a cooling rack.
7. Heat a pan, add the butter and oil. When hot, fry the slices of apple for 30 seconds then turn over and repeat.
8. Serve with slices of warm gingerbread and mascarpone.