Chocolate and ginger cake with sherry buttercream recipe | Sainsbury`s Magazine

Chocolate and ginger cake with sherry buttercream recipe | Sainsbury`s Magazine

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This decadent gluten-free chocolate and ginger cake from Jackson and Levine is topped with sherry buttercream for a festive twist

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Ingredients

  • 150g coconut oil, melted plus extra for the tin
  • 75g cocoa powder, plus extra for dusting
  • 180g pitted dates, soaked in hot water until cool, then drained
  • 2 balls of stem ginger in syrup, plus 2 tsp of the syrup
  • 150ml clear honey
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 225g ground almonds
  • 60g dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids), melted and cooled
  • 2 tsp ground ginger
  • 2 tsp gluten-free baking powder
  • 5 large eggs,lightly beaten
  • 4 tbsp milk
  • 40g crystallised ginger, to decorate
  • 150g unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 300g icing sugar, sifted
  • 3 tbsp sherry
  • 1 tbsp stem ginger syrup

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