Sticky Ginger Cake Recipe

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

Equipment

• 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

Ingredients

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

Instructions

• 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.

Other recipes you may like to try:-

• Carrot and Sultana Mini Loaves
• Lemon Syrup Loaf Cake 

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