Ginger Cake

This is a delicious old fashioned Ginger Cake. So simple to make it belies it's fabulous gingery flavour and moist crumb

Course cake

Cuisine Universal

Keyword ginger cake

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 43 minutes

Total Time 53 minutes

Servings

Calories 464kcal

Author Apply To Face Blog

Ingredients

150 grams unsalted butter
300 grams golden syrup
100 grams black treacle
2 tsps ground ginger
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda dissolved in 30 mls water
250 mls full fat milk
2 medium eggs beaten
300 grams plain flour
125 grams dark muscovada sugar

Metric - U S Customary

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 170 C/gas mark 3/325 F
Nigella suggests a tin foil baking tray of 30 x 20 x 5 cm. I used a 2 lb loaf tin with a paper liner. If not using a cake liner then line with Bake-O-Glide or baking parchment. Strangely you can get large and small 2lb tins. Mine is one of the larger ones. If yours is smaller and the cake mixture is looking as if it will reach the top of the liner as you are pouring it in then stop 2 cm before the top of the liner and make some muffins with the left over mixture.
In a saucepan melt 150 grams/21 oz butter, 300 grams/10.5 oz golden syrup, 100 grams/3.5 oz treacle, 1 tsp cinnamon, 2 heaped tsp ground ginger and 125 grams/4.4 oz dark muscovado sugar and stir until well combined.
Take off the heat and 250 mls milk, 2 eggs and dissolved (in 30 mls water) 1 tsp bicarb of soda. By adding th emilk first you make sure the mixture is cool enough not to cook the eggs. Mix well.
Put 300 grams/10.5 oz plain flour in a mixing bowl and pour the warm liquid into the bowl. Mix well until smooth.
Pour into your tin and bake for about 45 - 50 mins until risen and firm and a cocktail stick comes out clean. The top will be sticky. Wrap up when cool and leave for 24-48 hours to get stickier.

Notes

Strangely you can get large and small 2lb tins. Mine is one of the larger ones. If yours is smaller and the cake mixture is looking as if it will reach the top of the liner as you are pouring it in then stop 2 cm before the top of the liner and make some muffins with the left over mixture.

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