Delicious Ginger Cake Topped With a Ginger Icing
Watch the video and learn how to bake a ginger cake that is so moist and soft yet really packs a punch with a sudden hit of ginger in every mouthful!
Ingredients for ginger cake:
- 225g of soft unsalted butter
- 175g light brown caster sugar
- 210g black treacle
- 300g self-raising flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground mixed spice
- 4 medium eggs
- 4 tbsp milk
- 3 pieces stem ginger from a jar, finely chopped
Ingredients for the icing decoration:
- 100g sieved icing sugar
- 4 tbsp ginger syrup from the jar
- 2 tbsp milk chopped ginger pieces – small and roughly chopped
Watch the video “How to Make a Super Moist Ginger Cake”
How to bake the ginger cake:
- Pre heat oven to 160 degrees centigrade fan
- Line a 24x30x4cm baking tray with parchment paper
- Mix all the cake ingredients in a bowl with an electric mixer for about 2 minutes
- Tip into the baking tray and bake for approximately 35 minutes
- Take out and leave to cool
- Remove from the tray, slice and leave till cold
- Make the icing by sieving the icing sugar into a bowl, adding the ginger syrup and milk, then mix until smooth and creamy. Add a little more milk if it’s too thick.
- Drizzle over the cake and decorate with some cut pieces of ginger.
Enjoy!
This recipe has been adapted from https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/ginger_and_treacle_60494
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