Sticky Ginger Cake with Lime Icing

Name: Sticky Ginger Cake with Lime Icing
Yield: Serves 8–10
Cuisine: Americas
Ingredients: 115 g (4 oz) treacle; ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda; 2 large free range eggs, beaten; 2–3 tbsp milk; 225 g (8 oz) plain flour, sifted; 2 knobs of preserved stem ginger; 1½ tsp ground ginger; 55 g (2 oz) preserved stem ginger, chopped; 200 g (7 oz) icing sugar, sifted; 115 g (4 oz) soft dark brown sugar (preferably unrefined); 115 g (4 oz) butter, plus extra for greasing; juice of 1½ limes

Preparation info

Serves
8–10

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Caribbean Food Made Easy

By Levi Roots

Published 2009

About

A nice cup of tea with a big slice of my ginger cake should sort anybody out in the evening – or at any time of day. The icing gives a nice tartness.

Ingredients

115 g (4 oz) butter, plus extra for greasing
115 g (4

Americas
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C/325°F/gas mark 3. Butter and base-line a 18 cm (7 in