[Jamaican] How to cook Ginger cake
Ingredients
- 300 g (2 cups) plain flour
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1¼ tbsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp ground cloves
- 1 tsp ground allspice
- 160 g unsalted butter, chopped, at room temperature
- 185 g (1 cup firmly packed) dark muscovado sugar (see Note)
- 110 g (½ cup) caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 5 cm piece ginger, finely grated
- 185 g (½ cup) blackstrap molasses (see Note)
- 100 ml buttermilk
- 1 tbsp rum
- 2 tbsp pure icing sugar
- crème fraîche, to serve
