Ginger-Orange Pantry-Clearing Cake

If you’re like me, you’ve probably bought too many groceries for the holidays. Often these are the kind of ingredients you won’t want to see, or can’t use, after the holidays. So we’ll make a festive New Year’s Eve cake from all of that. A new cake, made from old stuff, that also clears out your pantry. A jar of stem ginger, for example, a pack of confectioners’ sugar, a few fingers of liquor, and a bag of sliced almonds or hazelnuts, I know just what to do with those. Everything can go, ho