Sarah's Slice

Cumbria Life - December 2025

This is a really tasty cake for Christmas and is a great alternative if you don't like traditional Christmas cakes. It is a three layer ginger cake filled with homemade curd and ginger buttercream. I intended this to be a special cake for Christmas so I used my candied satsuma peel and made some gingerbread leaves and trees but you can decorate with anything you want. Crystallised ginger would look lovely too. If you are not confident with the icing then make 2/3 of the ici

I have been wanting to make a Christmas ginger loaf cake for a few years but just didn't get around to it until now! The cake has both ground ginger and stem ginger in it and is a really tasty ginger cake. I have iced it with ginger buttercream and decorated it with my homemade ginger biscuits . It is a really festive cake and you can decorate with any shapes of gingerbread biscuits you like - just have fun with it! Jump to recipe To start pre-heat the oven to 160 degrees ce

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