A ginger cake is good, a double ginger cake is better, but a triple ginger cake is fantastic. It can be served warm or cold and fits just as well with tea on a summer afternoon as with an autumn evening by the fire. And it doesn’t need icing.
Ingredients:
- 200g/7oz self-raising flour
- 200g/7oz sugar 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 55g/2oz margarine, plus extra for greasing
- 3 medium sized pieces of candied stem ginger, chopped into small pieces.
- 1 free-range egg, beaten
- 3 tbsp ginger syrup
- 240ml/9fl oz warm milk.
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350FGas 4. Grease and line a 28cm x 18cm/11in x 7in baking tin with greaseproof paper.
- Mix the flour, sugar, ginger powder and bicarbonate of soda together in a bowl. Using your fingers, rub the margarine in until the mixture looks and feels like breadcrumbs.
- Add the beaten egg, syrup and warm milk and mix well with a wooden spoon until combined.
- Stir in the stem ginger and 2 tbsp of ginger syrup.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake in the middle of the oven for 35–40 minutes, or until golden-brown and the top is springy to the touch. Leave to cool in the tin.
- Poke some holes all over the top of the cake with a cocktail stick or skewer. Drizzle the remaining ginger syrup over the cake. Once cool, cut into squares.
Sounds so delicious!
I posted an article on different types of cakes. Why not choose your favorite cake? 😉
http://bakistryblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/choose-your-favorite-cake