How Should I Cool The Fresh Gingerbread With Lemon Icing?

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Nigella's Fresh Gingerbread With Lemon Icing (from HOW TO BE A DOMESTIC GODDESS) is a sticky ginger cake that is given extra heat with freshy-grated ginger. The cake is cooled and then topped with a lemon glacé icing.

The cake should be left to cool in its tin and unmoulded when cold. The cake should be baked until risen and firm to the touch (a cake tester should come out with some damp crumbs but not raw cake batter) and will continue to cook slightly as it sits in the tin. If the cake cools in the tin then less steam evaporates from the cake, giving a moist and sticky gingerbread. Unmould the cake by either lifting it out of the tin using the baking parchment lining the tin or invert the cake onto a wire rack, peel off the paper and then invert again onto a chopping baord, so that it is right side up. Ice the cake on the day you want to serve it.