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?

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.