"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Hunter S. Thompson

Sticky Gingerbread

Serves 12 (or should that be 1 or 2?)

Ingredients

• 6oz butter
• 5oz dark brown sugar
• 8oz black treacle
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 9oz self raising flour
• 1 dessertspoon ground ginger
• half a teaspoon bicarb of soda
• 1 teasp ground cinnamon
• quarter teasp ground cloves
• half teasp ground nutmeg
• 4 tablespoons Guinness

Method

Preheat oven to Gas mark 4; I use a 10 inch square dish, buttered

1. Melt butter; mix in sugar and treacle off the heat.Add beaten eggs.
2. Sift all dry ingredients, then beat into treacle mixture
3. Mix Guinness with 4 tablespoons hot water, bring to boil and stir into mixture
4. Pour into dish/tin
5. Drink remaining Guinness
6. Bake 45 mins - test with skewer
7. Cool in tin then cut into squares