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Ginger Cake Recipe
From our hospice kitchen to yours. Create this delicious Ginger Cake from the hospice café at home.
Ingredients
- 250g unsalted butter
- 250g soft, light brown sugar
- 250g golden syrup
- 3 eggs
- 350ml milk
- 450g plain flour
- 3tsp ground ginger
- 3tsp bicarbonate of soda
Method
- Preheat oven to 160 degrees, gas 3, or 140 degrees on a fan assisted.
- Put butter, sugar, and syrup in a saucepan and melt together, remove from heat, and cool for 10 minutes or so.
- Beat the eggs, then stir them in to the sugar mix, along with the milk.
- Sieve the dry ingredients into the mix and beat well.
- Pour into a buttered and lined 25cm deep baking tin.
- Bake for 50 minutes to an hour. The cake should be firm to the touch and bounce back when pressed in the middle. Turn onto cooling rack and remove lining paper.
- Juice 1 orange and mix in enough sieved icing sugar to become thick then spread onto cold cake.
