Squidgy lemon-ginger cake - Good Food Middle East

Ingredients

• 200g dates, stoned
• 200g butter, cut in pieces
• 300g dark muscovado sugar
• 2 eggs
• 50g fresh or frozen root ginger, grated
• 1 lemon, grated zest
• 200g self-raising flour
• 1 Bramley apple (about 250g/9oz) peeled and chopped into pea-sized pieces
• 50g white chocolate
• 1 tbsp chopped candied lemon peel, to decorate
• 1 tbsp sugar ‘coffee crystals’, to decorate