I’m sharing a pretty special recipe with you today and can I say it’s delicious. It’s a Honey & Ginger Cake with Lemon & Honey Buttercream!!! If you are not a ginger fan can I implore you to stop in your tracks of wiping this recipe off and give it a go. It really has the most delicious flavour in combination with the honey in the cake and offset with the beautiful Lemon & Honey Buttercream. It quite easily is my new favourite cake! That is saying a lot when I am a true chocolate cake lover at heart. What really got me was the combination of softened vanilla ice cream with crushed ginger nut biscuits peppered through out and gently mixed through. This is refrozen and gently scooped out on top of the cake just before serving! Amazing!

Also I had SO much fun photographing this cake because it’s been such a long time since I had time to just play. So play I did. I had a couple of hours up my sleeve and I just had a relaxing afternoon putting this cake together and setting the scene for me to take the photo. I did have a little interruption with a little helper giving me a hand near the end of the shoot. Miss A helped taste test the cake and ended up helping out washing the dishes (and most of the floor) from the shoot. She had so much fun playing in the sink that I think it took her over half and hour to get what I would get washed in 10 minutes. I wasn’t complaining it kept her quiet though.

The reason I made this cake was I was so inspired from a recipe I came across in the Woolworths Fresh Magazine. They had a Honey Ginger Cake featured in their November issue which encouraged the reader to make and send in a pic of their creation. Well I wanted to make my own version that catered for those with food allergies. I mean I want to eat something as delicious as this too without a bellyache. So my recipe is a alteration of their original recipe with allergy friendly swaps.

I entered my image into the competition and I hope they can see that doing an allergy friendly version can taste just as good! Can I just say this cake goes down extremely well with a hot cup of tea. Perfection!