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Ginger Cake

A treacle and ginger cake with lemon icing and pieces of preserved stem ginger.

Ginger Cake — illustrative food image

About Ginger Cake

Delia Smith's preserved ginger cake is a well-established cake from her Book of Cakes repertoire. This rendition pairs a ginger-and-treacle crumb with a thin lemon icing and small pieces of preserved stem ginger on top.

Ground ginger, preserved ginger and its syrup provide layers of warmth and sweetness. Black treacle adds depth, while butter, milk, eggs and ground almonds enrich the wheat-flour cake.

The cake is presented as small iced squares, with pieces of ginger arranged across the top. The pale lemon finish provides a sharp citrus note against the rich, warmly spiced cake beneath it.

Allergens in this recipe

Contains: Wheat (gluten), Milk, Egg, Almond.

Other allergen details are unconfirmed.

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Ingredients in Ginger Cake

Delia Smith's preserved ginger cake with lemon icing.

Ingredient details & uncertainties

Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.

  • Self-raising wheat flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Actual112 normal named self-raising flour confirms Wheat; exact product raising-agent formula unprovided, separate listed baking powder113 retained.
  • Baking powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Spreadable butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual114 named spreadable dairy butter, broader butter candidate; exact additional oils/full product formula unprovided, no invented oil carrier.
  • Golden caster sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual115 exact golden caster form, broader caster-sugar candidate.
  • Eggs: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Actual116.
  • Black treacle: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual117 broader treacle candidate.
  • Ground ginger: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Milk: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual119 no milk species specified.
  • Ground almonds: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Almond source-confirmed. Actual120 named almond ingredient.
  • Ginger syrup from preserved ginger: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual121 shared preserved-ginger product syrup, exact complete product formula unprovided; no own manufacturing recipe linked.
  • Preserved stem ginger: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual122/128/130 same preserved product for cake and topping; broader ginger base candidate, preserved syrup subformula unprovided.
  • White fondant icing sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual124 named dry fondant-icing-sugar product, broader powdered-sugar category only; exact glucose/additive formula not invented.
  • Lemon juice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Butter for cake tin: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual110 generic buttered tin separate from specifically spreadable batter butter114; salted/unsalted/full formula not specified.

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AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.

Sources & references
  1. Delia Smith — Delia's preserved ginger cake with lemon icing, Eden Project Communities; authorised 2013 reproduction