Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, sticky ginger loaf cake with lemon icing. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
To make the icing, mix together icing sugar and lemon zest, then gradually add lemon juice until you have a smooth, slightly runny icing, adding more juice, if needed. Drizzle icing in a zig-zag pattern over surface of cake, turn cake around and drizzle again to create the cross-hatched finish (see below). Spicy-sweet ginger and rich coffee are a beautiful flavour combination which have inspired the idea behind this cake.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sticky ginger loaf cake with lemon icing using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Sticky Ginger Loaf Cake with Lemon Icing:
- Get 200 g self raising flour
- Get 1 tsp baking powder
- Get 1 tsp ground ginger
- Make ready 1 tsp mixed spice
- Take 100 g slightly salted butter
- Take 80 g stem ginger grated
- Prepare 100 g unrefined muscovado sugar
- Take 100 g black treacle
- Prepare 100 g golden syrup
- Get 225 ml milk
- Get 1 egg beaten
- Prepare For the icing
- Take 50 g icing sugar
- Make ready Grated zest ½ lemon
- Get Juice of ½ lemon
Spread over the top of the cake. If you ice the gingerbread with the cream cheese icing, you'll need to leave the cake in the fridge. This simple Lemon icing is delicious with the ginger cake - trust me - amazing!! You don't technically have to have the icing but it is special with it Just a few pointers about Loaf Cakes, not just ginger ones.
Steps to make Sticky Ginger Loaf Cake with Lemon Icing:
- Butter a 1lb loaf tin and line with grease proof paper. Heat the oven to 180C/ 160C fan/ Gas 4. In a large bowl combine the flour, baking powder and spices, add the butter and rub together until it resembles bread crumbs then stir in the grated ginger.
- In a saucepan heat the sugar, treacle, syrup and milk until it’s simmering and the sugar has dissolved. Pour the syrup mixture into the flour and stir until everything is well combined then stir in the egg. The mixture will resemble a loose batter.
- Tip the batter into the tin and bake for 1hr 15mins until a skewer comes out clean. While the cake is cooling make the icing by combining all of the ingredients and beating until smooth. Turn the cake out of the tin, peel off the grease proof and drizzle over the icing.
- The cake will keep well in an air tight tin for approx 5 days, though it never lasts that long in my house!
And please remember if you like this cake I have so many more I'm sure you'll love. Loaf: Put the golden syrup, water, butter, brown sugar, fresh ginger and the salt in a saucepan. Place over a medium heat, stirring occasionally until the butter has melted. Once cool, sieve the icing sugar into a bowl. Make a small well in the centre and add the lemon juice.
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