Jamaican ginger cake

One of my favourite cakes ever is the simple ginger cake. Every week we used to always get one of the McVities Jamaica Ginger Cakes. I think it’s the moistness of the cake that really does it, and …

A sweet & spicy taste of the Caribbean!

McVities Jamaican Ginger Cake was a childhood winter treat - usually served with a bowlful of hot custard. This version is even more delicious with stem ginger and a sticky ginger glaze to intensify the flavour.

A sweet & spicy taste of the Caribbean!

Sticky, spicy and utterly unctuous, this cake will certainly put a smile on your face. I’m a big fan of all kinds of ginger cake, be they fluffy and lightly spiced or dense and packed with a …

Baking a Jamaican Ginger Cake with Rum and Spiced Orange Firstly, apologies for such a delayed blog post. Long story short moving house is no picnic. I still managed to bake but not able to blog! I…

Jamaican Ginger Cake: We’ve taken the much loved spiced loaf and turned it into a showstopper cake. The actual cake tastes better the day after you’ve baked it, so you can get ahead on that, too!

Bake Off finalist Ruby Bhogal’s sticky Jamaican ginger cake is the ultimate celebration cake. Layers of deliciously sticky spiced Jamaican ginger cake are sandwiched together with a salted butterscotch sauce and are smothered in orange mascarpone cream. Perfect to whip up for a celebration or a spot of afternoon tea or for a Platinum Jubilee lunch. This recipe has been created for this year’s Big Jubilee Lunch, which brings neighbours and communities together to share friendship, food and…

I was born in the UK, not Jamaica. I would love to give you stories of how I would sit with the family in Kingston on a balmy evening while cake baked in the oven, but it’s not so. The first time I...