Lily's Ginger Cake

Name: Lily's Ginger Cake
Ingredients: 8 ounces unsalted butter; 10 ounces sugar; 3 tablespoons golden syrup; 1 12 cups boiling water; 1 lb self raising flour; 3 teaspoons ground ginger; 2 teaspoons baking soda, in a little; milk; 8 ounces unsalted butter; 6 ounces icing sugar; 4 ounces drained crystallized ginger

11 ingredients

11 steps

Ingredients

8 ounces unsalted butter
10 ounces sugar
3 tablespoons golden syrup
1 12 cups boiling water
1 lb self raising flour
3 teaspoons ground ginger
2 teaspoons baking soda, in a little
milk
8 ounces unsalted butter
6 ounces icing sugar
4 ounces drained crystallized ginger

Directions

1

Preheat oven to 170c
2

Melt butter, sugar and syrup in water.
3

Add sieved flour and ginger.
4

Add milk/baking soda mixture in and quickly beat well
5

Put into an 8 cake tin, greased and floured or lined
6

Bake approx 45 minutes
7

Take out and sit for five minutes then put onto a cake wire and cool.
8

This cake is better if left to stand in an airtight tin, not in fridge for 24 hours then make butter cream.
9

Sieve icing sugar carefully
10

Cream the butter and sugar together, add chopped ginger.
11

Cut the cake in half horizontally and use this to sandwich the cake and also spread a little on top.