Easy Ginger Loaf Cake – it’s a beauty!
I thought it about time that we had a new traditional cake on the website. So I decided, with your help, to make a Ginger Loaf cake!
My Ginger Loaf is a lighter cake – it’s not the sticky dark type.
I cannot tell you how chuffed I am with this cake – it’s a total babe!
It’s a gorgeous spicy golden cake – mmmm
I quite like making loaf cakes (rather than round cakes) as I think it’s easier to handle and cut and always looks so pretty and neat
This one has a mixture of ginger and cinnamon as spices.
And it delivers a lovely mild ginger flavour, warming and comforting.
The simple lemon icing just adds to the treat.
Ginger and lemon seem to go so well together.
Please try it with the icing it’s so good
Ginger Loaf Cake with lemon icing – delicious!
A little about ginger
So first a little about ginger
It is widely know that ginger has many health benefits. Look it up it’s incredible.
However blains such as, anti-inflammatory, can treat many forms of nausea, lower blood sugars, and help with menstral pain.
There’s a lot of health benefits – if you’re interest check the benefits here 🙂
So it makes sense to eat ginger cake yes? Obviously
How to make a Ginger Cake?
It really is so very easy
You simply mix your dry ingredients together, melt your butter and syrup over hot water.
Then simply add an egg the butter and syrup mixture and mix.
Boom that simple!
Full method is detailed below – but I want you to know how easy it is:
Loaf Liners for loaf cakes? Are they good?
Also before I forget, have you discovered loaf liners yet?
Oh they are fantastic, you can say ‘bye’ to trying to line a loaf tin
I love them, so easy and you can find them in most supermarkets and they are not expensive either
Look at this beautiful Easy Ginger Loaf Cake
Just look at this beauty – it’s fail safe, every flipping time
Golden & delicious
The Ginger Loaf Cake Lemon Icing
This simple Lemon icing is delicious with the ginger cake – trust me – amazing!!
You don’t technically have to have the icing but it is special with it
One of my readers also adds stem ginger to the top too – says it’s wonderful
How long will my ginger Loaf Cake keep?
In our house it doesn’t last long….
However wrap in foil or clingfilm and pop in an airtight tin and it’ll be good for 4 – 5 days
Can I freeze my Ginger Cake?
Yes, yes you can (however I suggest freezing without the icing)
Just wrap well in foil or clingfilm and pop in the freezer – where it will be good for a couple of months.
You could always freeze slices separately – then you always have cake 🙂 just either wrap each slice individually or pop a piece of baking paper in-between each slice so it’s easier to defrost
Just a few pointers about Loaf Cakes, not just ginger ones
And please remember if you like this cake I have so many more I’m sure you’ll love.
Freda’s Apple & Fruit Loaf is really very popular, as is my Lemon Drizzle Cake!
Oh and let’s not forget my Mum Easy Christmas Cake another classic and a must try for Christmas.
Oh and this one is a beaut!! Banana, date & walnut loaf
Gosh can you tell I love baking and especially the good old classics!!
They are classic for a reason…… they stand the test of time
Oh and here’s my Coffee Cake too 🙂
10 Lovely Loaf Cakes
In fact if you love a loaf cake I have 10 LOVELY LOAF CAKES gathered all together – have a look
I hope you enjoy the round up
And let me know how you get on with this Ginger Loaf cake – I love your comments
Thanks Cx
Easy Ginger Loaf Cake
Ingredients
- 225 g Plain Flour
- 50 g Golden caster Sugar
- 1/2 Teaspoon Bicarbonate of Soda
- 2 Teaspoons Ground Ginger
- 1 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
- 125 g Butter
- 250 g Golden Syrup
- 1 egg
- 75 ml milk
- 75 g Icing Sugar
- 4-5 teaspoons Lemon Juice
- Grated zest of 1 lemon
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 150C fan /300F / Gas 2
- Grease and line a 2llb loaf tin or use a loaf liner
- Mix your dry ingredients together in a bowl, flour, sugar, Bicarb of Soda, ginger and cinnamon
- Melt your butter with your golden syrup in a bowl over a pan of hot water
- Once your butter has melted in the syrup, add half of this mix to your flour and mix well
- Then add the egg and beat
- Followed by the remainder of the butter syrup mix. Stir it really well
- Finally add your milk and mix
- Pour your mix into your lined or greased loaf tin and bake in the centre of your oven for approx 60 minutes
- Once golden brown and firm to touch remove from the oven and tin and cool on a cooling rack
- When your loaf is cold. Simply mix your icing sugar with lemon juice to using a spoon stir until smooth
- Pour the icing over the cake, use a teaspoon to spread a little Finally sprinkle with your grated lemon zest
Cheryl
I added the butter mix to the flour mix and it went lumpy. What did I do wrong please
Clare x
I’m really not sure – did you follow the methods and add half the butter first? x
Anonymous
So easy to make, great flavours, you can also make in 1lb loaf tin, makes 2 cakes, just shorten the cooking time,
Jayne
What is golden syrup?
Clare x
Hi Jayne
Golden syrup or light treacle is a thick amber-coloured form of inverted sugar syrup made by the process of refining sugar cane or sugar beet juice into sugar, or by treatment of a sugar solution with acid. … It is not to be confused with amber corn syrup or amber refined sugar.
Does this help you? Basically a light treacle
Pauline Hills
Making your loaves for a fundraiser .
They won’t last long 🤗
Clare x
Oh great to hear xx
Diane Webb
It is lovely but can I freeze half.
Clare x
I haven’t tried – but yes I’m sure you can x
Lina
Just made the ginger loaf and it sunk in the middle? Regards Lina
Clare x
Oh dear 🙁 sorry to hear that – maybe oven temp? They all vary so much.
Thanks Clare
Magdalena
What a beautiful and easy to make recipe! Thank you so much !!
Clare x
Oh so fab to hear – really glad you like it x
Mary Lowcock
Cake turned out really well. I melted butter a d syrup in a large pan then when it was a bit cooler added egg. Then all dry ingredients and beat it with a whisk. It saved messing too many bowls and it turned out delicious. Def need to do temp on 150
Clare x
Perfect x
Emma white
Very good easy to follow recipe came out the oven looking lovely and golden. Only 4 stars purely because was slightly dry, followed recipe to t! But will be fine and is completely edible we are serving it with custard or cream (no icing!!)
Sharon
Lovely cake. Lovely flavour but was expecting more of a ginger taste to it. My ground ginger wasn’t out of date so maybe I will add more next time. I gave it 4 stars only because I would have liked more ginger flavour.
Clare x
Thanks Sharon – I purposely made it a light ginger cake x
Ren
Hey 👋,
Just wondering if I can use fresh ginger?
Clare x
Yes try it x
Margaret Charrier
I’m not a baker and this works perfectly every time!
(I make the icing a bit thicker and add crushed crystallised ginger to the top.)
Clare x
oh sounds lovely – hope you enjoyed it xx
Lilian
Hi thank you for the recipe i have wrote down the Mederia Cake,Cherry Cake,and Ginger Cake I might make the ginger cake will let you no how it turns out
Clare x
Oh great to hear Lillian – let me know how you get on xxx
Elizabeth Justice
I’m useless at making cakes but this was so easy and got finished off by the family within a day!
Thank you for this recipe x
Clare x
Great to hear Elizabeth – Thanks you and so please you and your family liked it x