Ginger cake with crystallised ginger icing
2 hours
This ginger loaf cake, covered in cream cheese icing and topped with pieces of crystallised ginger, makes a lovely food gift. I have made this recipe countless times and it always turns out great!
Alegnia
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Ingredients
Serves: 2
- Ginger cake
- 200g plain flour
- 2 1/4 teaspoons ground ginger
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 200g caster sugar
- 115g butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon orange extract (optional)
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 240g apple sauce
- Icing
- 225g cream cheese
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon orange extract
- 300g icing sugar
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped crystallised ginger, or to taste
Method
Prep:20min ›
Cook:40min ›
Extra time:1hr ›
Ready in:2hr
- Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Lightly grease and flour two 1lb loaf tins.
- Combine flour, ground ginger, cinnamon, cloves and salt in a bowl.
- Cream sugar and butter in a large bowl with an electric blender until light and fluffy; stir in 1 teaspoon orange extract. Mix bicarbonate of soda into apple sauce and stir into butter mixture. Add flour mixture and mix until smooth. Pour mixture into the greased loaf tins.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a skewer inserted into centre of a loaf comes out clean, 40 to 50 minutes. Remove from tin and cool on a wire rack until cool, about 1 hour.
- Combine cream cheese, vanilla extract and 1/2 teaspoon orange extract in a bowl; beat with an electric mixer until well combined. Beat in icing sugar gradually. Spread icing on top of cooled loaf cakes. Decorate with crystallised ginger.
Cook's Note:
You can also use chopped candied orange peel to decorate the ginger loaf.
