Baking

The Boat Shed Café’s ginger nut slice

The Boat Shed Café shares the recipe for their much-loved ginger nut slice. Recreate this café favourite and home and enjoy with a hot cup of tea or coffee
The Boat Shed Café’s ginger nut slice
20 piece
10M
5M
15M

Photography by : David Zerilli

This recipe first appeared in Food magazine issue 85.

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Ingredients

Method

1.Lightly grease and line a 30cm x 20cm slice pan.
2.Combine the butter, brown sugar, salt, ginger, cinnamon, golden syrup and sweetened condensed milk in a pan. Heat over a low heat, stirring, until well mixed. Simmer gently for 5 minutes then set aside to cool.
3.Combine the gingernuts, walnuts, coconut, apricots and mixed peel in a large bowl. Mix in the butter mixture in well. Press evenly into the prepared pan.
4.Sprinkle the sesame seeds over the top and press in. Cover and chill overnight. Cut into squares or bars to serve.
  • The Boatshed Café, 2 Cambridge Terrace Christchurch ph 03 366 6768 – PER SERVE: Energy: 263kcal, 1100kj Protein: 4g Fat: 16g Saturated fat: 7g Cholesterol: 17mg Carbohydrate: 27g Fibre: 2g Sodium: 184mg
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