Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, sticky ginger loaf cake with lemon icing. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sticky Ginger Loaf Cake with Lemon Icing is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Sticky Ginger Loaf Cake with Lemon Icing is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have sticky ginger loaf cake with lemon icing using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sticky Ginger Loaf Cake with Lemon Icing:
- Prepare 200 g self raising flour
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 tsp ground ginger
- Get 1 tsp mixed spice
- Prepare 100 g slightly salted butter
- Prepare 80 g stem ginger grated
- Take 100 g unrefined muscovado sugar
- Prepare 100 g black treacle
- Take 100 g golden syrup
- Make ready 225 ml milk
- Take 1 egg beaten
- Prepare For the icing
- Make ready 50 g icing sugar
- Make ready Grated zest ½ lemon
- Get Juice of ½ lemon
Steps to make Sticky Ginger Loaf Cake with Lemon Icing:
- Butter a 1lb loaf tin and line with grease proof paper. Heat the oven to 180C/ 160C fan/ Gas 4. In a large bowl combine the flour, baking powder and spices, add the butter and rub together until it resembles bread crumbs then stir in the grated ginger.
- In a saucepan heat the sugar, treacle, syrup and milk until it’s simmering and the sugar has dissolved. Pour the syrup mixture into the flour and stir until everything is well combined then stir in the egg. The mixture will resemble a loose batter.
- Tip the batter into the tin and bake for 1hr 15mins until a skewer comes out clean. While the cake is cooling make the icing by combining all of the ingredients and beating until smooth. Turn the cake out of the tin, peel off the grease proof and drizzle over the icing.
- The cake will keep well in an air tight tin for approx 5 days, though it never lasts that long in my house!
Foods That Make You Happy
Mostly, people have been taught to think that “comfort” foods are bad for the body and should be avoided. Often, if your comfort food is a high sugar food or another junk food, this is very true. Soemtimes, comfort foods can be perfectly healthy and good for us to consume. Several foods honestly do boost your mood when you eat them. If you feel a little bit down and you need a happiness pick me up, try a couple of these.
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Now you know that junk food isn’t necessarily what you should eat when you want to help your moods get better. Try some of these instead!
