This recipe for Sticky Ginger Cake was easy to follow and most successful. I have received a request for the last few years to bake a Ginger Cake for my uncle's birthday, and this was his lucky year. I relied on family feedback as I am not a lover of ginger myself, and was reliable informed it was a most delicious moist slice of cake with a good balance of gingerness to it.
Sticky Ginger Cake Recipe |
Recipe Sticky Ginger Cake
- bowl or electric food mixer
- scales
- 2 lb/2 pint loaf tin
- baking parchment/ loaf tin liner
- cooling rack
- measuring jug
- sieve
- measuring spoons
- wooden spoon
- chopping board
- small knife
makes 1 loaf cake - 8 to 10 slices
175g plain white flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 tablespoon ground ginger
175ml sunflower oil
85g dark muscovado sugar
85g golden syrup
3 eggs
3 pieces of stem ginger on syrup, drained and finely chopped
2 tablespoon of the syrup from the jar of stem ginger
optional sliced stem ginger to decorate cake
Sticky Ginger Cake Recipe |
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C / Gas Mark 4
- Line the 2lb loaf tin, I prefer to use a loaf tin liner
- Sift the flour, baking powder and ground ginger into a bowl.
- Add the oil, sugar, golden syrup and eggs, beat them until you have a smooth batter. I used my K Mix and the K attachment.
- Add the chopped ginger and mix briefly.
- Pour into a lined loaf tin.
- Bake in a pre-heated oven for 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes. It should be well risen and firm, check with a skewer to see if it comes out clean. The cake will have a very dark colour, this is normal.
- Leave to cool in tin for 10 minutes, then remove and place on a wire cooling rack until cool.
- Before serving brush the top of the cake with the ginger syrup and decorate with sliced ginger.
Slice the Sticky Ginger Cake Cake to serve, you should get 8 to 10 slices. The jar of stem ginger in syrup I bought is sufficient to make another cake, just as well it tasted delicious.
This recipe was taken the Marks and Spencers recipe book 1 mix, 100 cakes.
This recipe was taken the Marks and Spencers recipe book 1 mix, 100 cakes.
Other recipes you may like to try:-
Oooo I have a jar of stem ginger in. I think I might crack it open to make this cake. It looks divine xx
ReplyDeleteOh wow I would love a slice of this right now, though ginger doesnt really agree with me x
ReplyDeleteThat looks delicious, I can't resist a recipe for ginger cake!
ReplyDeleteI don't think that any ginger cake can be bad, but this one looks and sounds especially good!! xx
ReplyDeleteI think ginger cake might just be my favourite cake - Just love it. Feel free to join in with #Bakeoftheweek and share this x
ReplyDelete