GINGER BUTTER CAKE

Ingredients

185g butter

120g icing sugar

1 tbsp maple syrup

4 large eggs

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Zest of 1 orange

50ml Grand Marnier

Stem ginger, 11cm, grated

250g cake flour

2tsp baking powder

Big pinch ground nutmeg

125ml whole milk

Instructions

Butter a loaf pan, 9*5 inch and dust with floour

Whisk butter, icing sugar and maple syrup until light and fluffy.

Beat in eggs, one at a time.  

Whisk in the orange zest, grated ginger and vanilla essence.

Mix in Grand Marnier, orange zest and ginger.

Fold in 1/3 of the sifted flour mixture, then half the milk.

 Repeat with another third of flour, then milk. 

Finish off with a final fold in of the remaining flour.

Bake 45 minutes.  Let cool.  Remove from pan.  

Enjoy!