Rhubarb, Apple and Ginger Cake

Name: Rhubarb, Apple and Ginger Cake
Yield: Serves 10
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 500 g icing sugar; 250 g butter, softened; 200 g cooking apple, chopped; 2 balls of stem ginger, finely chopped; Stewed rhubarb and caramelised apple slices; 3 tbsp stem ginger syrup; 1 tsp ground ginger; 220 g caster sugar; 200 g butter, unsalted, softened; 300 g self-raising flour; A pinch of baking powder; 2 tbsp agave syrup or runny honey; 200 g rhubarb, chopped; 3 medium free-range eggs

Preparation info

Serves
10

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Taste of Scotland’s Islands

By Sue Lawrence

Published 2019

About

Laura’s mother-in-law, Rosie MacDonald, grows the rhubarb in her garden for Laura’s wonderful creations. It is better with new season young pink rhubarb.

Ingredients

300 g self-raising flour
A pinch of baking powder
220 g</

Europe
United Kingdom
Cake
Scotland
Baking
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat your oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Grease and line the bottom of two 20cm round cake tins and set aside.

Sift the flour and baking powder together twice and set aside.

Cream the sugar and butter together for at least 3 minutes until smooth. Whisk in the eggs, one at