Blood orange and date cakes – Recipes – Anna Jones

Ingredients

• 220g salted butter, at room temperature, plus extra for greasing
• 150g light brown muscovado sugar, plus 60g for the tins
• 3 blood oranges, zested, then peeled, pith removed and cut into 1cm-thick discs
• 4 medium, organic eggs
• 220g plain flour
• 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
• 6 dates, pitted and chopped
• 3 balls of stem ginger, plus the syrup (or 2cm piece of fresh ginger, grated)
• 100ml of milk of your choice