Sticky Ginger Lemon Drizzle Cake Recipes

STICKY GINGER CAKE WITH LEMON ICING

Steps:

• Pre heat the oven to 140°C (130°C fan)
• Grease and line a 20 x 23cm (7½ x 8½ inch) dish.
• Place the wet ingredients into a small saucepan and heat gently until the butter has melted. Do not allow to simmer.
• Combine the dry ingredients.
• Mix the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients then gently mix in the eggs and milk.
• Pour into the baking dish, place in the oven and bake for 1h or until the cake springs back when you press the top.
• Allow to cool in the dish.
• This cake gets moister and more gorgeous with time. If you can bare to, wrap it in foil and leave for up to a week before you eat it.
• Before serving, mix the icing sugar with about ½ a tablespoon of lemon juice and drizzle over the cake. Sprinkle with some finely grated lemon zest.

STICKY STEM GINGER CAKE WITH LEMON ICING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to fan 160C/conventional 180C/gas 4. Butter and line an 18cm round, 7cm deep cake tin with greaseproof or parchment paper.
• Put the flour, bicarbonate of soda and all the spices into a large mixing bowl. Add the butter and rub it into the flour with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
• Put the sugar, treacle, syrup and milk in a medium saucepan and heat, gently stirring until the sugar has dissolved. Turn up the heat and bring the mixture to just below boiling point.
• Add the stem ginger to the flour mixture, then pour in the treacle mixture, stirring as you go with a wooden spoon. Break in the egg and beat until all the mixture is combined and it resembles a thick pancake batter. Pour this into prepared tin and bake for 50 minutes-1 hour, until a skewer pushed into the centre of the cake comes out fairly clean. Leave to cool completely in tin before turning cake out. (To freeze: wrap in greaseproof paper, then in cling film. Freeze for up to 1 month.)
• 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). Cake keeps for up to 2 weeks stored in an airtight container.

LEMON AND GINGER DRIZZLE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4. Grease an approx. 22x11cm loaf tin and line with greaseproof paper.
• Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, beat in the eggs one at a time, whisking well after each addition, then beat in the lemon zest. Sift in the flour, salt and ground ginger and fold in gently, then fold in the lemon juice and chopped stem ginger. Scrape the mixture into the prepared loaf tin and bake for about 45 minutes until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
• While the cake is cooking prepare the topping. Rub the lemon zest and granulated sugar together in a small bowl and set aside. Put the lemon juice, stem ginger syrup and icing sugar into a small saucepan and heat gently until the sugar has dissolved.
• As soon as the cake comes out of the oven, poke holes all over the top with a skewer, sprinkle over the sugar and zest mixture, then pour over the syrup, try and make sure that the whole cake gets an even dousing. Leave the cake in it's tin until it is completely cold - it is delicate while warm and may crumble.

STICKY GINGER LEMON DRIZZLE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Grease and line a deep 20cm round cake tin with baking parchment. Put the flour, bicarb and all the spices in a food processor, add the butter and whizz until it has disappeared, then tip into a mixing bowl (or rub in the butter with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs).
• Put the sugar, treacle, golden syrup and milk in a saucepan and heat, stirring gently, until the sugar has dissolved. Turn up the heat and bring the mixture to just below boiling point.
• Pour the treacle mixture into the dry ingredients, stirring with a wooden spoon as you go. Beat in the egg until the mixture resembles a thick pancake batter. Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 50 mins-1 hr, until a skewer poked in the centre comes out clean. Leave to cool completely in the tin.
• Split the cake through the middle. For the drizzle, stir the lemon zest and juice into the sugars, then immediately spoon all over the top half of the cake.
• For the filling, mix the lemon curd with the diced ginger. For the icing, beat together the ginger syrup, soft cheese, cream and icing sugar until thick enough to hold its shape. Spread the lemon curd filling all over the cut side of the bottom cake, dollop the creamy icing on top, then sandwich with the other half of the cake. The unfilled ginger cake will mature well for up to 3-4 days if wrapped well in baking parchment then foil.

GINGER DRIZZLE TRAYBAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE ICING

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 170°C/150°C fan/ gas 31⁄2. Heat the butter, syrup and sugar in a pan until melted and smooth. Remove from the heat, then leave to cool.
• Once cooled, beat in the vanilla bean paste, eggs, flour, 1 tbsp ground ginger, chopped stem ginger, yogurt, lime zest and juice and salt until smooth and combined.
• Pour into the prepared tin and level the top. Bake for 40-45 minutes until a skewer pushed into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
• Remove the cake from the oven, drizzle the stem ginger syrup over the top, then leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes. Remove the cake from the tin and put on a cooling rack, leaving the baking paper in place, until cooled completely.
• For the icing, whisk the butter and icing sugar in a bowl until light and fluffy, then whisk in the cream cheese until smooth. Add lime juice to taste. Spoon the icing over the cake, then sprinkle with crystallised ginger, lime zest and extra ground ginger. Cut into squares to serve.