Ginger Cake

Name: Ginger Cake
Yield: Serves 10
Ingredients: 50 g (1¾ oz) caster sugar; 150 ml (5 fl oz) ginger wine; 75 g (2¾ oz) crystallised ginger, roughly chopped; ½ tsp salt; 2 tsp ground ginger; 300 g (10½ oz) self-raising flour; 150 ml (5 fl oz) full-fat milk; 2 eggs; 2 tbsp golden syrup; 180 g (6½ oz) dark brown sugar; 200 g (7 oz) butter

Preparation info

Serves
10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

World's Best Cakes

By Roger Pizey

Published 2013

About

If you like your ginger cakes super-charged, then this is the recipe for you. This classic ginger cake has a big hit of ginger with the addition of a gingery wine syrup. So, prepare your taste buds.

Ingredients

200 g (7 oz) butter
180 g (6½

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 170°C/325°F/gas mark 3, and grease and line a 18cm x 8cm x 8cm (7in x 3¼in x 3¼in) loaf tin with baking parchment.
Place the butter, sugar and golden syrup in a largish pan and heat until it is all melted.
Beat the eggs in