Ginger Cake
Contributed by
Honest to Goodness Community
Serves
1 cake
Time
1.5-2 hours
Method
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius.
- Sift flours, ginger and soda into a bowl.
- Combine butter with golden syrup and sugar in a saucepan, stir over low heat until butter is melted.
- Remove from heat, beat until smooth, cool.
- Add milk and beaten egg, add to flour mixture, beat till smooth.
- Pour into greased and greaseproof paper-lined 26cm cake tin (approximately). Bake for 1 - 1 1/4 hours.
- To make the icing...sift icing sugar into heatproof basin, add butter & lemon juice.
- Stir over hot water until icing is of spreading consistency, add 1 tsp water if necessary.
- Remove from tin and allow to cool, then spread with lemon icing.
- It's great for afternoon tea, and keeps well. Leftovers can be warmed and served with custard.
