DISH RESEARCH · Dessert
gingerbread cake
Also known as: Cake, gingerbread, dry mix, Cake, gingerbread, prepared from recipe
Sally McKenney’s selected single-layer gingerbread cake uses unsulphured molasses, light brown sugar and three ground spices. Its own cream-cheese frosting is optional and includes separately allocated butter, sugar, vanilla and spice pinches.
About gingerbread cake
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Sally McKenney’s gingerbread cake combines molasses with ground ginger, cinnamon and cloves in a soft, buttery cake. Her selected single-layer version can be left plain or covered with an optional spiced cream-cheese frosting.
Flour, baking soda, spices and salt are whisked together, while unsulphured molasses is loosened with hot water in a separate bowl. Softened unsalted butter is creamed with the selected light brown sugar before the egg and vanilla are added.
The dry mixture enters alternately with the molasses-and-water mixture, producing a slightly thick batter. It bakes in a greased springform pan, then cools completely in the pan on a rack.
For the optional frosting, cream cheese and a separate smaller butter portion are beaten together. Confectioners’ sugar, another vanilla portion and small pinches of the same three spices make a creamy topping.
The frosting is spread over the cooled cake before slicing. McKenney links the molasses-and-spice combination with holiday baking and offers the plain cake as another way to enjoy its flavour.
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