Sultana, Tea And Ginger Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1 cup sultana
• 1 teaspoon earl grey tea (leaves)
• water (to cover the sultanas)
• 250 g butter, softened
• 2 cups caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 cups self-raising flour
• 1/4 cup crystallized ginger, slivered
• 2 cups icing sugar, sieved (sifted)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 2 teaspoons butter, softened
• boiling water

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 180°c
• 2 grease or line a 9 x 9 cake tin.
• 3 put the sultanas in a small saucepan with the tea. cover with water, bring to a boil then simmer for 10 minutes.
• 4 drain, then beat in the 250g butter.
• 5 beat the sugar and eggs until well combined then add the sultana mixture.
• 6 fold in the flour and crystalized ginger then spoon into the tin and bake for approximately 1 hour or until an inserted skewer comes out clean.
• 7 make the icing by putting the icing sugar, vanilla, ground ginger and butter in a bowl.
• 8 mix then slowly pour in enough boiling water to be able to mix the icing to a drizzling consistency.
• 9 drizzle over the cake.