To get it right

Very often I try to create a new recipe and most times the result is very good, but not always. Yesterday while I was baking bread I decided to use up a couple of lemons and some root ginger that I had in the fridge. It took me about five minutes to decide that I would like to try a lemon and ginger drizzle cake, after all, I do like lemon drizzle cake and lemon and ginger go well together so why not?
So I grated the ginger and the lemon zest then squeezed the juice from the lemons. The cake recipe is easy anyway as they are all pretty much standard and I decided to use the ginger as it was even though it is quite fibrous. I find that the powdered ginger is not always as strong as I would like, so some of both would probably work.
The cake was made and cooked and looked very good so then I decided to make the syrup to pour over when it came out of the oven. So using just lemon juice and sugar as I normally do, I put it on a low heat and stirred until the sugar was disolved then I left it while I did something else. When I came back the mixture was boiling so I took it off the heat and took the cake out of the oven.
This is the bit that wasn't quite right because I made deep cuts into the cake with a knife when I would normally puncture it all over with a skewer, then poured over the syrup. When the cake was cold and I cut it, the syrup wasn't distributed evenly throughout the cake and I think the syrup had boiled too long because it was a bit like lemon toffee through the cake but it tasted really good!
When I have perfected the recipe I will let you know.