Chocolate Ginger Cake
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- 30 mins to cool
- Easy
- Serves 12
Ingredients
For the batter
- 195g of self raising flour
- 30g of Green & Blacks Cocoa
- 225g of caster sugar
- 225g of stork margarine
- 4 medium eggs
- 2 tsp of baking powder
- 30ml of ginger liqueur
- 2 tsp of ground ginger
For the icing
- 125g of unsalted butter
- 250g of icing sugar
- 25ml of each ginger liquer and cocoa blanc liqueur
- Chrystalised ginger to decorate
Method
- STEP 1Preheat the oven to 170C/Gas 5
- STEP 2Add all the ingredients to a food processor with a knife fitting in place. Combine for 1-2 mins.
- STEP 3Line an 20cm diameter round baking tin with parchment.
- STEP 4Place the batter mixture in the tin and cook for 1 hour.
- STEP 5Meanwhile rinse the food processor, then add the ingredients for the icing and combine for 1 minute.
- STEP 6Once the cake has cooled, pipe or spread the icing on the top and decorate with small slices of chrystalised ginger. Chocolate butter cream or frosting also works well with this cake.
