Lily's Ginger Cake

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 8 ounces unsalted butter
• 10 ounces sugar
• 3 tablespoons golden syrup
• 1 1/2 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

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 170°c
• 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 8â€? 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. cut the cake in half horizontally and use this to sandwich the cake and also spread a little on top.