My friend Jennifer shared a recipe with me some time ago for her tasty Ginger loaves. I’ve made them several times and I have meant to share them with you, but they never seem to last long enough to get any photos of them because they are soooooo tasty 🙂 x But I made 8 mini loaves yesterday and still had 6 left this morning so I thought I’d better get some photos taken pronto xx ;p This recipe is actually for one large loaf, but I have found it works well for mini ones too, just remember they won’t take quite as long to bake x
Ingedients:
- 200g/7oz Self Raising Flour
- 200g/7oz Sugar
- 1tsp Ground Ginger
- 1tsp Bicarbonate Soda
- 55g/2oz Margarine
- 1 Egg Beaten
- 2tbsp Golden Syrup
- 240ml/9fl oz Hot Water
Method:
- Pre-heat oven to 180oc
- Grease and line 11x7ins baking tin
- Mix the flour, sugar, ginger and bicarbonate soda in a bowl.
- Rub margarine in until it resembles breadcrumbs.
- Add beaten egg, syrup and hot water. Mix well with wooden spoon.
- Pour into tin and bake for 35-40 mins.
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Drooling into my coffee.
Do you need me to pop one in the post? What did you make this weekend? x
Yes please! 🙂
Thank you for this – I was thinking about making ginger cake yesterday, and you’ve saved me a recipe hunt. Just have to get some golden syrup. The pic on the front of the tin always intrigues me – have you ever really looked at it?
Heehee…..I hadn’t, but I have now ;p It looks like a sleeping lion to me? with flies, flying around it x What is your interpretation? x
There’s some info about it here http://scienceblogs.com/bioephemera/2008/05/16/lyles-golden-syrup/ I can puzzling over it when I was a kid, and then we were having a conversation about it in a bar recently, and then your recipe reminded me of it. All part of the great interconnectedness of everything, I guess (thank you, Douglas Adams).
Thanks, I’ll have a good read of that later x 🙂
I found a recipe from Mrs. Beeton’s cookery book, and it said about Yorkshire ginger cake, I was thinking to bake that too, and yours looks very tasty too. Anyway what is the different between Yorkshire ginger cake and yours? I have bake it before obviously didn’t know how it looks like and its taste.
I’m unsure of the difference between my Ginger cake and Yorkshire, Ginger cake!! I know you get some very sticky, gooey ginger cakes perhaps that is more like Yorkshire Ginger cake? x Let me know if you find out xx 🙂
Yes, will try your recipe and the one I found, will let you know about it. 🙂
Thanks x
Nice picts! Why margarine instead of butter I wonder?
Thanks, I think it is just more traditional to use margarine in Scottish recipes, feel free to substitute in butter, it won’t make much difference I don’t think xx
Looks delicious! Love the dinky cases.
Thanks, they are cute, aren’t they? 🙂 x
Yup! Gorgeous!
I need to find equally cute replacements now though 😉 x
Tricky one. Sometimes you can strike lucky at TK Maxx, but it’s the luck of the draw.
Haha….that is where I got these ones ;p x Waitrose have plain brown ones, but I wasn’t inspired by them x
OK. It’s official: the search is on! x
These are adorable! Nice job 🙂
Thank you very much xx 🙂
I love the packaging you used 🙂
Thanks, I think I bought them in T K Maxx x When I saw them I knew I needed them x ;p
Same thing happened to me with cupcake liners at Marshall’s the other day haha!
It’s what we live for…….heehee 🙂 x
Yum! and I love your cases …so beautiful!
Thanks, I love them too xx I’m on the hunt for new and different ones to replace these now x 🙂
I was looking for a nice cardboard muffin cases but couldn’t find anything really really nice. and the one i liked were around £10 – rip off!!! so …i’m still searching.
I have some gorgeous blue and white striped cardboard cupcake cases with flags waiting for a recipe and icing inspiration to hit me, not seen any muffin cases though!! I’ll have to keep an eye out for some x
thx. let me know. it seems that i’d have to mail order it anyway. local shops really doesn’t stock anything fancy.
I will do x Mail order is the future and opens up the possibilities too xx 🙂
Great! Will be trying this one on the weekend for my preggers sister…ginger is her go to food for morning sickness right now. Thanks!!
Let me know how they turn out x And what your sister thinks of them too!! Oh and the bump xx 🙂 x
Question from a (sometimes ignorant) American: what is golden syrup? Is a darker, deeper flavored honey or closer to molasses? Trying to determine what I might sub for lacking the ingredient here in Arizona. 🙂
Hi Katie, I have done a little research and it seems it is available is select stores in the US!! It seems to be compared to light molasses mostly, but there is a product that seems to claim to be exactly the same called Kings syrup, which is made in Baltimore!! I hope this helps, let me know if you find some xx
Thanks! I’ll have to look for some…I also found a few brands on amazon I can try. Is Lyles a good brand? I’m always willing to try a new product. Thanks, Lucy!
Lyles is the best, I believe them when the say there is no equivalent in the US/indeed the world, it is unique and amazing!! If you can get your hands on the real thing, you will thank me for bringing it into your life!! xx Good luck x
I was wondering the same thing. Thanks for posting an answer.
No problem, I hope it helped xx
Ohh, I do something similar when I am baking a banana nut – chocolate chip bread. The recipe calls for a bread loaf pan … but instead I place the mixture into 8 mini round clay dishes to back. It makes individual cakes…and it does take a lot faster to cook.
That sounds interesting Katie, little clay dishes you say? Have you blogged about it? I’d love to see photos x
I didn’t make ginger loaf this weekend but a friend brought me some, so that was an easy sweet treat for me. I love anything with ginger.
Me too x I love it in my food as well, I think it’s why I started cooking more Chinese/Japanese meals, so that I could eat more Ginger xx 🙂 xx
Oh you have so many – can you send one over 😉
Heehee……they didn’t last long enough for anyone else to get any of them….oops x ;p
These look yummy! I love how dark they are! Mmmm 🙂
Thanks, the tasted equally as yummy too 🙂 x I also use this recipe for my Cinnamon Loaves which are surprisingly tasty too!! Just substitute the Ground ginger for Ground Cinnamon, if you are interested? x
Love cinnamon so I am interested! Thanks!
Me too :p xx
Ohhhh I love mini loave’s/cakes/pies!
Thanks for coming by & liking my Marble Cake xx
Thanks I’m the same, I love making smaller versions of things when I can ;p xx
These are adorably delicious 🙂
Very nicely put, thanks x 🙂
This sounds pretty tasty and the liners are so pretty!
Thanks, I love the cases, but I am struggling to find replacements for them 😦 But I’ll keep on hunting x 🙂