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Gingerbread Cake

[heart_this] · Dec 19, 2022 · 8 Comments

Gingerbread Cake

A moist and tender, traditional style, gingerbread cake that’s the perfect holiday dessert!

Gingerbread is a classic holiday treat that can come in various forms such as cookies, breads, cakes, etc. The main flavours are typically: ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and molasses. This gingerbread cake is the perfect holiday dessert and it’s easy to make! Molasses is pretty thick and needs to be thinned out with warm water to which butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla are added. The dry ingredients contain the spices along with flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. The wet and dry ingredients are mixed before being poured into a pan and baked. This gingerbread cake is amazing all by itself but it gets even better when topped with butterscotch sauce, caramel sauce, toffee sauce, or custard sauce along with some whipped cream or ice cream!

Gingerbread Cake

Gingerbread Cake

Gingerbread Cake

Gingerbread Cake

Gingerbread Cake
Gingerbread Cake

Gingerbread Cake

Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 40 minutes Total Time: 50 minutes Servings: 12

A moist and tender, traditional style, gingerbread cake that’s the perfect holiday dessert!

ingredients
  • 1 cup water, just boiled
  • 1 cup molasses
  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 cup brown sugar (packed)
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons ground ginger
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
directions
  1. Mix the hot water and molasses followed by the butter and brown sugar before letting it cool a bit and mixing in the eggs and vanilla extract.
  2. Mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.
  3. Mix the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and pour into a greased, or parchment lined, 8×8 inch baking pan.
  4. Bake in a preheated 350F/180C oven until a toothpick pushed into the center comes out clean, about 40-45 minutes, before letting cool and enjoying.
Tip: Gingerbread cake is amazing topped with a sauce such as: caramel sauce, butterscotch sauce, toffee sauce, custard sauce/creme anglaise!
Nutrition Facts: Calories 303, Fat 8g (Saturated 5g, Trans 0.3g), Cholesterol 46mg, Sodium 243mg, Carbs 53g (Fiber 0.8g, Sugars 32g), Protein 3g

Nutrition by: Nutritional facts powered by Edamam
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Comments

  1. tvh says

    December 19, 2022 at 5:15 pm

    Fantastic! Thank you so much for this wonderful recipe. Seasons greetings to you and yours!

    Reply
  2. janis clarke says

    December 19, 2022 at 5:59 pm

    Ohhh, this so reminded me of the cake my mother used to make. We had it with homemade applesauce. Thanks Kevin!

    Reply
  3. Chrissie says

    December 19, 2022 at 7:42 pm

    Can i make this with gluten free flour? It looks devine.

    Reply
    • kevin says

      December 26, 2022 at 12:26 pm

      Yes you can!

      Reply
  4. Sabrina says

    December 21, 2022 at 12:23 am

    a nice cake, and a really nice butterscotch sauce too, thank you!

    Reply
  5. Foodluv says

    December 21, 2022 at 9:59 am

    great receipe of Gingerbread Cake, its really tasty and easy to make, i loved it.

    Reply
  6. Marcia says

    December 22, 2022 at 4:00 pm

    i don’t remember how i first came upon closetcooking, but i am so glad i did.. i have enjoyed your recipes for several years now. right now i am sitting here with a cast enclosing my fractured right wrist, but i am heading down to the kitchen to pull out the butter and eggs to soften and come to room temp while i gather the rest of the ingredients so that i can make my first gingerbread cake ever. you make it look so easy, i have to try. just can’t decide which sauce might be best for my first effort, but i’m thinking butterscotch. thanks, kevin, for another great recipe.

    Reply
  7. Emirellicompany says

    January 14, 2023 at 11:41 am

    Ginger is very beneficial for health, thanks to this recipe, I will be able to feed ginger to my children with pleasure.

    Reply

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