The holiday season is the perfect time to bake up Christmas-inspired desserts and just generally get into a festive baking spirit, and this gingerbread pound cake with rum butter glaze from recipe ...

There's nothing like a rum soaked cake to tingle your tastebuds. Because who doesn't like a little pick me up in a dessert?

Add the chopped stem ginger, ginger syrup, rum and 100ml/3½fl oz freshly ... smooth and just-pourable icing. Remove the cake from the tin and spoon the glaze over the top. Leave to set for ...

For dinner en famille, simply brush the cake with warm apricot jam, perhaps with a bit of rum stirred in. For something a bit fancier, drizzle on the second glaze just before serving.