Warm Lemon Ginger Pudding Cakes Recipes

WARM LEMON GINGER PUDDING CAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Butter eight 1/2-cup ramekins or custard cups. Place dishes in large roasting pan.
• Beat 1/2 cup sugar, butter and lemon zest until well combined. Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in flour and ground ginger. Add lemon juice and beat to combine. Gradually add yogurt and crystallized ginger.
• Using clean dry beaters and a clean dry bowl, beating egg whites until soft peaks form. Add remaining 1/2 cup sugar and beat until stiff but not dry peaks form. Fold whites into yolk mixture in 3 additions.
• Divide mixture among prepared dishes. Pour enough hot water into roasting pan to come halfway up side of ramekins, approximately 3 cups.
• Bake in preheated oven 25 minutes until pudding cakes are puffed and firm to the touch. Remove dishes from roasting pan and cool on wire rack. Sprinkle wirh icing sugar before serving.

WARM LEMON PUDDING CAKE

Steps:

• Cream: butter; flour; sugar;ADD: yolks, beaten; lemon juice; milk;Beat egg whites stiff.
• Fold into batter;Bake in 8" ungreased dish set in a pan of water, 350, 35 minutes.
• When cool, flip cake onto plate.
• Sauce is now on top.

LEMON GINGER POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Generously butter a 4 to 5 cup nonstick bundt, kugelhopf or loaf pan, and then flour it, knocking out excess.
• Chill 10 minutes.
• Finely grind together fresh ginger and 1/4 cup sugar in a food processor (mixture will be wet).
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, ground ginger, and salt.
• Stir together milk and vanilla in a small bowl.
• Beat together butter, remaining 1/2 cup plus 2 TBS sugar, and zest in a large bowl with an electric mixer until fluffy.
• Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Alternately add flour and milk mixtures to butter and eggs in 4 batches, beginning with flour and mixing at low speed until each batch is just incorporated.
• Mix in ginger sugar until just combined, then lemon juice.
• Spoon batter into pan, smoothing top, and bake in middle of the oven until golden brown on top and a tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 40 minutes (about 1 hour for loaf pan).
• Carefully loosen edges with a knife and immediately invert cake onto a rack to cool completely.
• Gradually add confectioners' sugar to 1 TBS lemon juice, whisking until smooth and adding more juice, 1 drop at a time, if glaze is too thick.
• Drizzle decoratively over top of cake.
• Serve to six very lucky friends or family members!