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Vegetarian

Ingredients

For the Dessert

½ tsp Ground Cinnamon

350 g Plain Flour

150 g Golden Syrup

2 tsp Ground Ginger

2 tsp Baking Powder

200 g Unsalted Butter

8 Balls Stem Ginger (Finely Chopped)

3 Eggs

1 tsp Ground Nutmeg

140 g Dark Brown Sugar

1 tsp Vanilla Extract

½ tsp Bicarbonate of Soda

125 ml Full Fat Milk

½ tsp Ground Clove

1 Thumbful Ginger (Grated)

1 Pinch Sea Salt

For the Icing

1 Pinch Sea Salt

100 g Icing Sugar

¼ tsp Ground Ginger
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Spiced Ginger Cake

by Dan

Serves 10

Total 1 hour 5 minutes

Oven Temp 180 °C - 50 minutes

Difficulty Super Easy

Chef Tarunima Sinha

Method

  1. Add the butter, sugar, grated ginger and golden syrup in a medium pan over a gentle heat, leave to melt and then stir until smooth. Set aside for later.

  2. Add the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, ground ginger, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt into a large bowl. Make a well in the centre and pour in the wet mixture and stir until combined. In a small jug add the eggs, milk and vanilla extract and stir together and then add to the mixture and stir until just combined. Add the chopped stem ginger and mix into the batter.

  3. Pour the batter into a greased cake tin and bake for 50 minutes. Cool the cake for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.

  4. Add 6 tbsp of syrup from the stem ginger jar along with 2 tbsp of boiled water and brush all over the cake.

  5. Once the cake is completely cool mix the icing sugar, ground ginger and salt with 3 tbsp of water to make an icing glaze of pouring consistency. Pour over the cake.