Mr & Mrs Gingerbread-Oats on their Ginger Bed

Whenever I feel a bit down, nothing cheers me up more than making a nice cake and some cakes are a lot more fun than others. Take this one, for example. Who could fail to be cheered by these two relaxing
in happy repose, blissfuly unaware of their sugary fate...

You will need:

1 ½ cups plain flour

1 ½ cups sugar

1 ½ cups rolled (porridge) oats

1 ½ cups dried fruit

1 ½ cups milk

1 tablespoon black treacle

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon nutmeg

1 teaspoon ginger

1 teaspoon baking powder

Icing sugar for decoration

You will need to:

Mix all the dry ingredients together thoroughly.

Add the treacle and the milk, stirring everything together to form a firm mixture.

Pour into silicon moulds and bake on 180 degrees C for ½ hour or until firm. (check with a skewer to see if they are done.

(I used three silicon moulds: 1 square and two which are shaped like a gingerbread man and a gingerbread lady. If you don't have moulds n this shape, get some cookie cutters and make 2 square or 1 rectangular cake and cut Mr and Mrs Gingerbread-Oats out of one, constructing the ginger bed from what is left.)

When the cakes are ready, take them out of the oven. Let them cool a bit, then remove them from the moulds (cut them out if necessary.)

Lay the square cake on a large plate and sprinkle icing sugar all over it, through a sieve. This is where it starts to look a bit like a Tracey Emin art installation, so take care! (Top tip: Use a bit of syrup or milk gently brushed onto the areas you want sugared and use the icing sugar sparingly, otherwise it will go up your nose!)

Now lay Mr and Mrs Gingerbread-Oats on top and, shielding their faces with a piece of paper, and sprinkle more icing sugar on top. 

Now eat them!

Poor Mr Gingerbread-Oats! He never stood a chance.=(