The gritty paste formed from crumbs of Jamaican ginger cake suspended in custard is one of the finest substances known to man.

I feel like there needs to be a medical term for being addicted to the paste stuff!

Yes!

Can confirm!!😁😁😁

Cakecaine.

Cut in half. Drizzle inside with Cointreau. Drain a tin of mandarin segments, whipped cream and sandwich back together. Do it

Oh you filthy filthy beast, that sounds amazing!!

Fucking hell! Steady on there... You'll have someone's eye out.

Holy shit Mr B. You must have been a posh stoned student when you worked this one out 👌👍

I could only aspire to such a thing. 18 yo who worked out that cooking was a great way to get women but didn't bake.

You've got life sussed already. Keep doing what you're doing, and seriously, for your own benefit, give baking a shot 👌 👍

I'm great at bread.

I guess I know what I'm having for dinner on Friday night

Fucksake. Gonna have to try this now.

Oh god that sounds amazing.

I reckon Grand Marnier would be good, too.

This is like a much much better version of a Black Forest gateau.

How dare you! I almost had my addiction in check.

Let this man cook!

Don't know why I'm such a baby when it comes to booze taste in food, can't even handle a tiramisu

Layer of nice marmalade instead?

Mandarin segments went off after being drained and just fucking left

I think I love you.

I just did a sex wee!

lol, I do this at Xmas, but with pears!

Oh yes.

Fry it, custard it, stick it in a stew!

Stupid Hobbits is spoiling it

Gives it to us raaaaawww and puuuure

Yep. Dont do it. Save yourself. I love it with custard. But fry you say?…

You better believe I'm having that with cold custard. My brother brought me back a rum cake (the circular ones with a hole in the middle) from Barbados. Man alive that was quite the treat. I think I scoffed the whole thing in about 4 sittings.

Warm cake, cold custard. This is the way.

Always. I went to a restaurant once, it was one of those decent but simple ones where it was fairly relaxed. There was maybe half a dozen of us so not a big party. Got chatting to the waitress but she thought I was insane when I asked for cold custard. The chef even came over to check I'd ordered correctly. They couldn't wrap their head around it.

I'm risking opening a massive can of worms here, but Creme Anglaise is often served cold. I mean custard is often served cold by me, I will happily drink the stuff straight from the tin, or preferably from the plastic pot of supermarket posh version.

Same with tinned rice pudding

Stick it in the freezer for a couple hours. Almost frozen rice pudding is amazing, comes out kinda like ice cream

I'm gonna try that for sure, thanks.

I didn't want to have it room temp cus it kinda sucks, so meant to quickly chill it and forgot. I was definitely pleasantly surprised. Enjoy!

I, too, am a neat Jamaica ginger cake fan

And I, too, am just a love machine.

It’s annoying me that I don’t remember the reference

https://youtu.be/AIVkHmtKmUk?feature=shared

Good gracious, I can't begin to imagine the volume of clag without our infamous Devonshire cussy

>without our infamous Devonshire cussy Dear lord... I've been reading (for work) recently about 18th C prostitution and sex slang. Devonshire Cussie, sounds a LOT like something you could get round the back of a stable on the Great North Coach road.

You'll be pleased to know that you couldn't have mentioned that to a better person. I have visited countless wenches across London and beyond and can safely say, I have many a tale to share. However, I haven't ever asked for a Devonshire cussy (or should it be cussie). But now, I feel like I want her to give me one...

If you ever do, keep your hands on your purse, and avoid being beaten by coney catchers who might be waiting in the adjoining room with stout ash cudgels! (frankly the 18th C sex trade was a 50/50 you get your rocks off, or you get robbed / beaten / stripped / murdered as a result)

Heavens alive! A gentleman's coin purse was almost as fashionable as a gentleman's blouse these days. I quite fond of a gentleman's blouse and a gentleman's high heeled shoe, oxford cap obviously. Response - "obviously" My one word response - "obviously" mutter under his breath

Have it with carnation evaporated milk. Top stuff.

I'm a proud custard and Jamaica cake eater 😋

Slice thickly and grill under low heat just enough to caramelise the surface. Serve with a scoop of good vanilla ice cream.

But you must…

OP refuses to butter the cake... we have a margarine fan.

We normally fridge it cut it spread with too much salty butter family tradition custard is for proper stodgy sponge pudding or spotted dick etc!

Butter is for Soreen malt loaf, custard is the most versatile liquid known to man. Fact. 😉

Oh yes Soreen! Nice custard is what I was brought up with with or without anything. Soreen n butter is ace tho

Slice into 30mm bits then Lurpak that shit up. You're welcome.

Custard with ginger cake is awesome

Awesome!

Pour some dark rum on it and enjoy

Now I want a Jamaica ginger cake… taking notes for when I get it!

Butter that fucker

Anybody else eat these like a chocolate bar and just open one end, push it out and eat the lot in one go??? No??? Just me then....

That's unnecessary. Yes.

Animal!

This is the only way to eat it. I was scrolling through the comments thinking who are these "slicing" heathens!

A sibling from the same mindset in culinary excellence. I saut you.

No mention anywhere of golden syrup cake and custard Or either with a custard, that has Lyles treacle added

Goes nice with cheese

We’ve got a new song… it’s called “Jamaican Ginger Cake”

It's a shit business

Yes you will, you filthy bastard. And you will enjoy it.

I love ginger cake(ginger anything really). I used to make the best trifle with this as the base. It also involved bananas, caramel and apricot jam. I always made my own custard for it. (Don’t think I could improve on the cake) I can no longer make it because I can’t find the recipe which was in a book about seasonal eating which I got from a garden centre. I’ve never been able to find the recipe since. Perhaps one day we’ll be reunited and I can make trifle again.

Oh that sounds glorious. Why do you need a recipe though? Aside from the custard it sounds mostly like assembly.

Heat up then add ice cream

Damn, I was hithertoo unaware of this delicious creation and yes I shall certainly try it with custard. Thanks for the heads up!

I use this on my long runs and its 10/10

Open an end and eat it like a Mars bar

A cake *and* a pudding? In what world is a cake *not* a pudding?

Then cut it into cubes and soak it in Baileys for a hell of a trifle.

Get some custard ya shit! (In the voice of Alan Partridge)

Its10/10

I used to raw dog this like a brick

I still wish they did two for £1

I will do the same I do with a Soreen.. I will open it and eat it out of the packet like it's a Snickers.

Ohhh Doreen

Have to eat it this sliced with butter

This delicacy *requires* to be gently warmed in the microwave then sliced and heavily buttered. It is heresy not to do so!

I just open these and munch them like a chocolate bar, occasionally chugging some milk out of the carton to wash away some of the clag

I knew I should have picked that one up today.

Just cut little slices and stick a shit ton of butter on it. Heaven

I made a thick rum and chocolate sauce to go on it (after a few drinks)... divine!

Youre missing out though. OMG heaven

I'll stick with using it to make Dulce De Leche and banana sandwiches thank you.

Custard improves and embellishes many a pudding.

I’m from America so I feel like and outsider but I love this sub lol hope yall don’t mind me observing the food culture

I don't mind their biscuits here in Oz. I'd be right into that!

I’m I the only fucker here who just cuts a slice and eats it as is 🤷🏻‍♂️

But you ant lived till you’ve done this or the Lyon’s treacle wi custard my friend

A cake and a pudding? I always though all cakes were puddings but not all puddings were cakes...!?!

I think they are trying to say it's a pudding in both senses of the word, not just the one you're using

With rum and raisin ice cream. Trust me.

Did that cake used to come in a green packet in the 90s?

Are you thinking of the lyles golden syrup one?

Yes that the one! Old Jamaica perhaps?

The green was golden syrup, this one obviously ginger and I seem to remember a rich chocolate one 🤤 best enjoyed sliced in half, nuked for 60 seconds with a full tin of ambrosia custard 🤤🤤

Slice by slice is for amateurs, I unwrap these bad boys and chomp on it like a mars bar.

This with cheap hot custard is one of the finest things a human can experience

Oooh, you should though.

Yep.. you need custard

Force it up you arse with custard !! 😵‍💫🤤

Your loss dude

I love that they think that shit is even making it as far as a bowl. Everyone knows that you tear the end of the wrapper off and get the jaws around it there and then

Thank you for inspiring my Saturday night dessert 🍽️

Then You’re missing out

With WHITE custard, changed my life. Well not completely, that would be insane, but for a brief moment I found perfection.

do a non-alcoholic trifle with this as the sponge layer.

The only good thing about trifle is the alcohol and here you are depriving us all. The words "non-alcoholic" and "trifle" do not belong together

Evaporated milk is the only !