August Bank Holiday Monday
Cilcain Show
Home Section 2011
Judge: Mrs Ann Richards, Ruthin
Steward: Mrs Jean Thomas (Tel: 01352 740056)
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Ladies Cake Competition
Class 17: Ladies Cake Competition -
150 ml Guiness
175 g dark muscovado sugar
3/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
200 g self-
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2 eggs
100 g caster sugar
125 ml unsalted butter melted
4-
2 tblsp ginger syrup from same jar
Preheat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease and line 22cm approx. square shallow baking tin.
Dissolve muscovado sugar in Guiness and bring to boil in small saucepan working out any lumps of sugar. Remove from heat. Leave to cool.
In a large bowl, add this mixture to the flour, ginger, cinnamon, bicarbonate of soda, caster sugar, melted butter and beaten eggs. Lastly finely chop a couple of knobs of stem ginger and add to mixture.
Pour mixture into tin and bake for 30-
Whilst still warm, brush ginger syrup over top of cake and decorate with finely sliced remaining knobs of stem ginger.
2010 Winner: Margaret Williams, Cilcain
Gentlemen's Baking Competition
Class 18: Gentlemen's Baking Competition -
200g self-
1/2 tsp mixed spice
100g soft brown sugar
250g mixed dried fruit
50g glace cherries, quartered
2 eggs
4 fl.oz. cooking oil
4 fl.oz. milk
25g demerara sugar
Preheat oven to 160C/150CFan/gas mark 2. Grease and/or line 2lb loaf tin.
Sift flour and spice into bowl. Add all other ingredients, except demerara sugar. Mix thoroughly.
Turn mixture into tin, sprinkle surface with demerara sugar and bake for approx. 1 hour 10 minutes when skewer inserted into cake should come out clean.