Deb and Wally’s Ginger Spice Cake

This is one of my favourite cake recipes. I like it because it looks so modest; the kind of cake that not even the greediest child would bother picking up at a tea party. More fool them.
I got the original recipe from Kylie Kwong’s cookbook, It Taste’s Better. I love the addition of white pepper, which I had never seen before in a cake – it gives it a real kick.