Honey and ginger cake
Cookery is constantly changing, always capable of embracing new trends and new experiments, and going beyond the usual expectations - maybe even using ingredients in combinations that at first sight seem unlikely to work and certainly outside the norm. In this wonderful recipe we offer a dessert that is both sweet and yet also marked by a combination of distinctive flavours: the honey and ginger cake, combining the aroma and goodness of honey - sweet and molten – with the liveliness of ginger, which gives a note of originality to the cake. Are you ready to try a really unusual dessert, something that offers the perfect conclusion to a lovely dinner?
Ingredients
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Italian 00 flour 100 grams
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baking powder 1 sachet
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honey 200 grams
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vanillin 1 sachet
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almonds 200 grams Chopped
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carrots 200 grams
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eggs 4 units
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lemon juice The juice and zest of half a lemon
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rum A tablespoon of rum
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ginger A small piece of grated root ginger
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Preparation
Mix the egg yolks with the ginger, rum, juice and zest of a lemon, vanilla, honey, chopped carrots and chopped almonds. Add the flour and the baking powder. Beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt and fold them into the mixture a tablespoon at a time. Spoon the mixture into a well-greased 21 cm cake tin and bake at 180 °C for 45 minutes.
Step by step
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Mix the egg yolks with the honey and vanilla, then add the chopped carrots and the ground almonds. Finally add the grated ginger, rum and grated lemon zest.
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Add the flour to the mixture
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Add the baking powder to the mixture
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Beat the egg whites until firm
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Add the egg whites to the mixture
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Pour the mixture into a good sized cake tin with a hole in the centre and bake
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The honey and ginger cake is ready
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