Food and Cooking

Ginger and marmalade loaf cake – Recipe

This light, easy-to-make ginger loaf cake has an extra layer of flavour thanks to the addition of orange marmalade and zest.

Ingredients
125g/4½oz unsalted butter, at room temperature, plus extra for greasing
100g/3½oz dark brown sugar
2 free-range eggs
175g/6oz self-raising flour
4 tbsp milk
1½ tsp ground ginger
2 tbsp orange marmalade
1 orange, finely grated zest only
4 bulbs stem ginger, chopped, plus 2 tbsp ginger syrup from the jar
Recipe tips

Method
Preheat the oven to 190C/170C Fan/Gas 5. Grease or line a 2lb/900g loaf tin.

Cream together the butter and sugar. Beat in an egg, then mix in half the flour. Beat in the other egg and the milk, then mix in the rest of the flour, the ground ginger, marmalade, orange zest, chopped ginger and syrup.

Spoon into the prepared cake tin. Bake for 30–40 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.

Leave the cake to cool in the tin for 5 minutes, then remove and finish cooling on a wire rack. Keep in an airtight tin or wrapped in foil for up to a week.

In other news – Material things can never give you peace – Rich Shauwn Mkhize finally confesses

Shauwn Mkhize has come out to declare that she has found herself again as well as her voice, adding that she chooses her serenity and her peace over the material things that she possesses. Learn more

Source: BCC FOODS