Ingredients

For the Parkin
  • 100g butter
  • 4 tbsp milk
  • 175g golden syrup
  • 50g treacle
  • 100g light soft brown sugar
  • 80g oats
  • 100g self raising flower
  • 1tsp ground ginger
  • ½ tsp ground nutmeg
  • ½ tsp mixed spice
  • 1 egg
For the compote:
  • 300g rhubarb, thinly sliced
  • 1 orange, juice and zest
  • 100g caster sugar
To serve:
  • Vanilla ice cream
  • 500ml whipped cream
  • Ginger syrup
  • 1 ginger stem, chopped

Method

Melt the butter, syrup and treacle in a pan over a low heat.  Add the milk and warm everything through.

In a bowl, mix the dry ingredients together and add the egg.  Whisk in the warm, wet ingredients as above. 

Pour into a lined square cake tin and bake in the oven at 160C for one hour. 

Put the rhubarb, orange juice, zest and sugar into a pan and cook for ten minutes then allow to cool. 

To serve, put a chunk of parkin in the bottom of a tall glass. Spoon over the compote, followed by a scoop of ice- cream, then repeat these layers. Pipe the cream on top, drizzle over the syrup, and finish with the chopped ginger.

Ingredients

For the Parkin
  • 100g butter
  • 4 tbsp milk
  • 175g golden syrup
  • 50g treacle
  • 100g light soft brown sugar
  • 80g oats
  • 100g self raising flower
  • 1tsp ground ginger
  • ½ tsp ground nutmeg
  • ½ tsp mixed spice
  • 1 egg
For the compote:
  • 300g rhubarb, thinly sliced
  • 1 orange, juice and zest
  • 100g caster sugar
To serve:
  • Vanilla ice cream
  • 500ml whipped cream
  • Ginger syrup
  • 1 ginger stem, chopped

Method

Melt the butter, syrup and treacle in a pan over a low heat.  Add the milk and warm everything through.

In a bowl, mix the dry ingredients together and add the egg.  Whisk in the warm, wet ingredients as above. 

Pour into a lined square cake tin and bake in the oven at 160C for one hour. 

Put the rhubarb, orange juice, zest and sugar into a pan and cook for ten minutes then allow to cool. 

To serve, put a chunk of parkin in the bottom of a tall glass. Spoon over the compote, followed by a scoop of ice- cream, then repeat these layers. Pipe the cream on top, drizzle over the syrup, and finish with the chopped ginger.