Gingerbread Cake with Lemon Icing

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cake: Ingredients for

• 1½ cups plain flour flour • 1½ cups self-raising of soda • ½ teaspoon bicarbonate ginger • 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon • 2 teaspoons ground nutmeg • 1 teaspoon ground • Good pinch of salt at room temperature) • 250g butter (softened packed brown sugar • 1¼ cups of firmly • 2 eggs • ½ cup golden syrup • 1 cup buttermilk

lemon icing: Ingredients for

at room temperature) • 60g butter (softened grated lemon zest • 2 teaspoons finely or rind juice • 2 tablespoons lemon sifted • 2 cups icing sugar, cake: Instructions for (or with fan, 140 degrees 160 degrees Celsius 1. Preheat oven to Celsius). and or circular cake pan centimetre square 2. Grease a deep 23- paper. line base with baking aside. large bowl and set except sugar, into a and 3. Sift dry ingredients, beater to beat sugar bowl, use an electric 4. In another large syrup time, then golden Add eggs one at a butter until fluffy. and buttermilk. and beat mixture on into wet ingredients 5. Add dry ingredients are combined. low speed until ingredients for about three minutes to medium; beat mixture 6. Increase speed colour. smooth and pale in or until mixture is until for about 45 minutes into pan and bake 7. Spread mixture in pan for 10 minutes clean. Let cake stand skewer comes out onto wire rack to cool. before turning out spread cake is well cooled, lemon icing. Once 8. Meanwhile, make on icing.

lemon icing: in Instructions for rind and icing sugar beat butter, lemon Using an electric beater, as required. beat in lemon juice a bowl. Gradually,

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