Easy Ginger Cake (Vegan)
Easy ginger cake - this one bowl sticky vegan ginger cake is so quick and easy to make and tastes amazing; it is the best ginger cake (vegan or otherwise) I have ever eaten! Egg and dairy free.
Servings 24 people
Calories 210kcal
Ingredients
Easy Ginger Cake:
- 450 g (3 + ¾ cups) plain (all-purpose) flour sifted
- 1 ¼ tsp baking powder
- 1 ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- 4 ½ tsp ground ginger
- 2 tsp mixed spice (pumpkin spice)
- 160 g (¾ cup) caster (superfine) sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- 160 ml (⅔ cup) sunflower oil (or another neutral oil)
- 200 g (7oz) golden syrup
- 200 g (7oz) treacle (molasses)
- 360 ml (1 ½ cups) boiling water
Lemon Glaze:
- 75 g icing (powdered) sugar sifted
- juice of ½ a lemon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan/350°F/gas mark 4. Grease a 23x33cm / 9x13inch rectangular cake tin and line with a strip of baking parchment.
- Whisk together the sifted plain flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, ginger, mixed spice, caster sugar and salt in a large bowl.
- Add the golden syrup, treacle, sunflower oil and boiling water to the bowl and whisk until no lumps of flour remain.
- Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake for about 25 -35 minutes, until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
- Leave to cool in the tin for 20-30 minutes then carefully flip the cake out onto a wire rack and leave to cool completely.
- To make the lemon glaze, place the sifted icing sugar in a bowl and gradually stir in enough lemon juice to reach a drizzling consistency. Drizzle the glaze over the cake, cut into squares and serve.
Notes
- For the best results make sure that you follow the recipe closely. As always, I highly recommend using the gram measurements (with a digital scale), rather than the cup conversions. Cup measurements are simply not accurate enough for baking and I cannot guarantee the best results if you use them.
- For an extra ginger kick you can add a couple of handfuls of chopped stem or candied ginger to the batter.
- If you like your cake extra spicy feel free to add more! I like to add ½ tsp allspice. ¼ tsp ground anise would work really well too.