Gingerbread cake

Posted on | November 16, 2008 | | Printer Friendly

gingerbread cake

I made the boy a gingerbread cake for his birthday.  I found the recipe for the cake in one of our Delicious magazines and the icing idea on taste.com.au. I baked the cake a few days ago and popped it in the freezer to keep until his b-day.  This morning, I whipped together the simple icing and voila.. ready to go!

  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 2 tsp ground ginger
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp cloves
  • 1/4 tsp allspice
  • 2-3 Tbsp chopped candied ginger
  • 1 stick butter (room temp)
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup molasses
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cups buttermilk
  • 1 1/2 tsp vanilla

Icing:

  • lemon juice and icing sugar.  I used about 3/4 cup of icing sugar and about a tablespoon of lemon juice.   Decorate with more chopped candied ginger.

Update:

Ooops, I was in such a rush to get this post written yesterday that I forgot the baking instructions.  I baked this in a 9 inch round cake pan at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes.   Admittedly, I wasn’t keeping track of the time - I just kept pricking the cake with a toothpick until it came clean.

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Category: Bakery, Sweets

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2 Responses to “Gingerbread cake”

  1. Marla Drake
    November 17th, 2008 @ 9:41 am

    Hi, This sounds wonderful, what size pan, what temp and how long do you cook it??

  2. J.
    December 5th, 2008 @ 9:01 am

    wow! does that ever look good!

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