Gingerbread Latte Cake Recipe with Kenwood

Gingerbread Latte Cake with Kenwood

The Perfect Holiday Recipe!

Ingredients for the Cake

• 200g unsalted butter (softened and diced)
• 300g soft brown sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 350g self-raising flour
• 200ml soured milk
• 50g ground almonds
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 3 tsp ground ginger
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp ground cloves
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp black treacle6 pieces stem ginger in syrup (finely chopped)

Ingredients for Coffee Syrup

• 3 tbsp instant coffee
• 75g caster sugar

Ingredients for Icing

• 250g soft unsalted butter
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 500g icing sugar (sifted)
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 tbsp stem ginger syrup from the jar
• 1 x 280g tub full fat soft cheese, at room temperature

Ingredients for Christmas Trees

• 200g green Candy Melts
• 15 milk chocolate twigs
• Assorted sprinkles
• 1 x silver edible glitter spray
• Coconut flakes and desiccated coconut

Method

 1- Preheat oven to 180°C, Fan assisted 160°C, Gas mark 4.
 2- Grease and line with baking parchment 2 x 20cm dia. cake tins.
 3- Add the lemon juice to the milk and set aside to thicken.
 4- Into the mixing bowl of your Kenwood Chef sift the flour, ginger, cinnamon and cloves, baking powder and salt. Then mix slowly the sugar and ground almonds using the K-beater. 
 5- Add the diced butter and mix on a medium speed until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then add the black treacle, soured milk, and chopped stem ginger.
 6- Transfer the mixture equally into the 2 cake tins, and bake for approx. 45 minutes until risen, and the top of the cakes feel springy.
 7- To make the coffee syrup dissolve the coffee and sugar in 5-6 tablespoons of boiling water, and drizzle over both cakes. Then leave the cakes to cool in their tins.
 8- For the icing, using the K-beater on a medium speed, mix the butter and ground ginger until a soft and creamy texture. Then turn the speed down and slowly mixing add the icing sugar, a quarter at a time.
 9- Once mixed, add in the vanilla extract and ginger syrup, then the soft cheese and mix again until smooth. Chill in the fridge.
10- For the Christmas tree decorations, put 200g of green Candy Melts in a bowl and melt in the microwave for 30 seconds. Stir and repeat the process until fully melted. Put the finished icing into a piping bag
11- Place different lengths of chocolate twigs on baking trays, lined with baking parchment, and space out allowing enough space for the piping. Cut a small hole in the end of the piping bag, and working in a zigzag movement from the top down, forming a Christmas tree shape.
12- Add sprinkles and edible glitter before the Chocolate sets and then allow to set at room temperature
13- Slice each cake equally into two, creating four thinner layers. Use the buttercream to sandwich all 4 layers in a stack and then spread a thin layer of it all over the sides and top of the cake to contain the crumbs.
14- Chill the cake and remaining buttercream for 30 minutes until it has hardened.
15- With the rest of the buttercream coat a thick layer all over, smooth off, then finish with a rough pattern and peaks.
16- Decorate with desiccated and flakes of coconut and chill for half an hour. Add the Christmas trees and serve at room temperature.