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

  • Italian 00 flour 100 grams
  • baking powder 1 sachet
  • honey 200 grams
  • vanillin 1 sachet
  • almonds 200 grams Chopped
  • carrots 200 grams
  • eggs 4 units
  • lemon juice The juice and zest of half a lemon
  • rum A tablespoon of rum
  • ginger A small piece of grated root ginger

Start shopping

Easter cake with figs and chocolate

Easter cake with figs and chocolate

Handmade Potatoes and Rosemary Taralli

Handmade Potatoes and Rosemary Taralli

"Cheese and black pepper" Handmade taralli

"Cheese and black pepper" Handmade taralli

Confit Tomatoes with olives and capers

Confit Tomatoes with olives and capers

Tasting and tasting of artisan pastes

Tasting and tasting of artisan pastes

Dairy Mix: burrata, mozzarella, primo sale, yogurt, stracciatella, treccione and mini balls of mozzarella cheese)

Dairy Mix: burrata, mozzarella, primo sale, yogurt, stracciatella, treccione and mini balls of mozzarella cheese)

Shi drum fish and wild peas sauce

Shi drum fish and wild peas sauce

Taralli with celline olives and capers

Taralli with celline olives and capers

Information
60 minutes Total time
45 minutes Active time
Serves 6 persons
Social share
Would you like to share this recipe with your friends? Have you tried it? Write us!

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.

Tips
If you love nuts you can customize your honey and ginger cake with some hazelnuts.
Trivia
Ginger is a root crop and native to south east Asia.

Step by step

**Click on the photos to access full step by step!