Stem ginger cake?

mrbadexample

:hello:

I was in ASDA earlier today, and I saw a rather tasty-looking stem ginger cake. It's my mum's birthday on the 8th, and I thought "she'd like that....I could post it to her". I was just about to put it in the trolley, when I realised what I was doing! :eek:

So, has anyone got a recipe for a postable stem ginger cake? I remembered to buy stem ginger (in syrup, in a jar), which incidentally, was about the same price as the cake. :doh:

Obviously, I'd have to make it tomorrow and post it on Thursday.

Cheers!
MBE :beer:

Paulie'sGirl

Hey MrBE,

Is this gonna be a cook-along thread??? :T :j

I found this link to a Nigel Slater recipe. I haven't made this particular one, but his cake recipes generally are spot on: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2003/nov/23/foodanddrink.shopping

Hope that helps?

PGxx

mrbadexample

Paulie'sGirl wrote: »

Hey MrBE,

Is this gonna be a cook-along thread??? :T :j

I found this link to a Nigel Slater recipe. I haven't made this particular one, but his cake recipes generally are spot on: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2003/nov/23/foodanddrink.shopping

Hope that helps?

PGxx

It'll be a fast cook-along thread, if you keep up. I haven't got long!

That recipe looks to be just what I'm after, but...

I've got no dark muscavado sugar. At short notice, I can rustle up Demerara cane sugar. Will that do?

Can I use me loaf tin, coz that's what I've got?

foreign_correspondent

mrbadexample wrote: »

I've got no dark muscavado sugar. At short notice, I can rustle up Demerara cane sugar. Will that do?

Can I use me loaf tin, coz that's what I've got?

I think both of those would be fine - so long as your loaf tin is big enough. If not you could always pop the rest in another tin or tray if needed and eat that yourself!

mrbadexample

foreign_correspondent wrote: »

I think both of those would be fine - so long as your loaf tin is big enough. If not you could always pop the rest in another tin or tray if needed and eat that yourself!

It's a 2lb loaf tin, and normally big enough for cake.

Back later when the pub kicks out. :wave:

JulieM

Probably too late for the person who asked, but if anyone else is interested, Delia Smith has a wonderful recipe for stem ginger cake with lemon icing. I'm hopeless with computers, so haven't got a clue how to copy recipe, but you can 'google' it.

Mrs_Pepperpot_2

so how did you get on?


...and if you're now posting cakes - where's mine?

mrbadexample

Mrs_Pepperpot wrote: »

so how did you get on?


...and if you're now posting cakes - where's mine?

I'm just about to start! I had to pop and see Mr Sainsbury on the way home to get Muscovado sugar. :rolleyes:

As for yours, well you'll just have to put your order in and wait. It'll be a while, coz I'm off to France in a fortnight but you never know, you might just get lucky!

Hope the new littlest pepperpot is fine and dandy?

Mrs_Pepperpot_2

Can't you post a cake from France then?

Surely you won't have anything better to do

mrbadexample

JulieM wrote: »

Probably too late for the person who asked, but if anyone else is interested, Delia Smith has a wonderful recipe for stem ginger cake with lemon icing. I'm hopeless with computers, so haven't got a clue how to copy recipe, but you can 'google' it.

Cheers Julie....not quite too late, but I haven't got the stuff for lemon icing, and a plain cake fares better in the post, so I'll have a look at this next time.

Welcome to MSE by the way...... :wave:

mrbadexample

Mrs_Pepperpot wrote: »

Can't you post a cake from France then?

Surely you won't have anything better to do

I might be a little bit, err....preoccupied.