Lemon Gingerbread Drizzle Cake

Saturday 1 April 2017


   
Lemon Gingerbread Drizzle Cake

I make no secret of the fact I am crazy about the flavour of ginger.  Ginger tea, ginger cookies, ginger cakes, in stir fries, candied . . .  in short however it presents itself.  I am having a love affair with ginger.  Combine it with lemon however  . . .  and I am totally smitten, ensnared . . .  lost forever.  It is  combination I find very hard to resist.

Lemon Gingerbread Drizzle Cake


This cake is amazing.  At first glance, it looks quite unremarkable, except for that glistening surface, which catches your attention aand demands a closer look . . . 

Lemon Gingerbread Drizzle Cake


You cut a slice and the first thing you notice is  . . .  it's incredibly moist, almost damp . . .  and yet at the same time it is thoroughly cooked  . . . and the smell . . .

Lemon Gingerbread Drizzle Cake

The smell is totally and utterly amazing.  Not only when it is baking . . . but after it comes out of the oven. The smell alone begs you to cut into it and imbibe.

Lemon Gingerbread Drizzle Cake

Look at that moist and tender crumb.  Quite unsual in a cake which contains whole wheat flour.  Most cakes with whole wheat flour are very dense.  This is not.  It is tender and light and oh so moist . . . 

Lemon Gingerbread Drizzle Cake

This is partially due to the addition of dark muscovado sugar to the batter, and oodles of golden syrup with it's caramel-like qualities . . .  and then there is that lemon/butter/sugar glaze that gets soaked into the cake after baking . . .  down from the top and up from the bottom . . . 

Lemon Gingerbread Drizzle Cake

 I topped it with whipped cream to serve. Oh boy, did this go down a real treat.  With lots of snappy ginger flavours, a terrifically moist crumb, a hint of buttery lemon drizzle in the topping and then the whipped cream.  Boy oh boy.  This was quite simply fabulous.

Lemon Gingerbread Drizzle Cake

Adapted from a recipe found in a cookery book entitled,  Rose's Heavenly Cakes, for a cake called English Gingerbread.  I added a few more spices to the mix, because I like my gingerbread spicy.  You are going to love this. If you don't, I'll eat my hat.

Lemon Gingerbread Drizzle Cake


*Lemon Drizzle Gingerbread Cake*
Serves 12 to 16
A moist and spicy cake with sticky butter-lemon glaze. 

113g butter (8 TBS)
425g golden syrup (1 1/4 cups light corn syrup)
60g dark brown muscovado sugar (1/4 cup, packed)
40g orange marmalade (1 heaped tablespoon)
2 large free range eggs
160ml milk (2/3 cup)
115g cake flour or unbleached all purpose flour ( 1 cup, sifted into the cup and leveled off)
115g whole wheat flour (1 cup, minus 1 TBS, lightly spooned into cup)
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp baking soda
inch salt

For the drizzle:
3 TBS sugar
2 TBS lemon juice
2 TBS butter


Lemon Gingerbread Drizzle Cake


Butter an 8 by 2 inch square cake, or a 9 by 2 inch round cake and dust with flour, tapping out any excess.  Preheat the oven to 160*C/325*F. gas mark 3. 

Stir together the butter, syrup, sugar and marmalade over low heat in a heavy bottomed saucepan, until melted and uniform in colour.  Cool to just warm to the touch. Whisk in the eggs and milk. 

Sift together the flours, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, soda and salt.  Add the butter mixture, folding all together just until smooth and consistency of a thick soup.  Pour into the prepared pan. 

Bake for 50 to 16 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean and the top springs back when lightly touched. 

While the cake is baking make the topping. Heat together all of the topping ingredients until the butter and sugar have both melted. 

Let the cake cool in the pan on a wire rack for about ten minutes.  Brush the syrup over the top of the cake. Invert the cake onto a wire rack and brush the bottom with the remainder of the syrup.  Invert, top side up onto a cake plate.  To make the cake extra moist, cover with some plastic cling film while the cake is still hot and leave to cool.  Wrap up airtight and let sit overnight before cutting into squares to serve. 

Note - a dollop of whipped cream on top would not go amiss.  Just saying.

I added: 1/4 tsp each, ground cloves, ground cardamom and ground allspice.
Just add it when you whisk the dry ingredients together.  Heavenly bliss.


 







4 comments

  1. Love anything with ginger. Your new layout looks much clearer btw.

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    1. You are sure to love this gingerbread Jay. I do like the new layout. Miss a few bits from the old, but I am getting more used to this and yes, it is much clearer!

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