Si and Dave served up a delicious German bee sting cake with rum, honey, stem ginger and candied lime zest on The Hairy Bikers Go North.

The ingredients are: 250g plain flour, plus extra for dusting, 1½ tsp fast-action dried yeast, ½ tsp salt, 1 tbsp honey, 60ml/4 tbsp tepid milk, 2 free-range eggs and 85g butter, softened.

For the topping: 75ml/5 tbsp honey, 2 pieces stem ginger, very finely sliced, ½ tsp ground cinnamon, 1–2 tsp whisky, bourbon or rum (to taste) and candied lime zest.

For the honey and ginger buttercream: 125g butter, softened, 250g icing sugar, well sifted, 2 tbsp honey, 2 tbsp ginger syrup (from the jar of stem ginger), 2 pieces stem ginger, finely chopped (optional) and 1–2 tsp rum (optional).

See recipes by The Bikers in their book titled: The Hairy Bikers’ Everyday Winners: 100 simple and delicious recipes to fire up your favourites! available from Amazon now.