The holiday season is the perfect time to bake up Christmas-inspired desserts and just generally get into a festive baking spirit, and this gingerbread pound cake with rum butter glaze from recipe ...

Now, there are many types of gingerbread, but for this particular cake you need to get the dark, sticky sort – always my first choice – rather in the style of a Jamaica ginger cake.

Christmas cake with a difference. I’ve embraced the cut out technique using an actual gingerbread man cutter. Feel free to use one large gingerbread man or, depending on the size of your cake ...

Preheat your oven to 170°C and line a 1lb loaf tin with parchment. Sieve the ground ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and flour into a large bowl. Place the butter, treacle, golden syrup and sugar into a ...

trim off any domed tops with a serrated knife before using a pastry brush to brush the tops of each sponge with syrup from the stem ginger jar. Now it’s time to construct the cake by placing one ...

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