Best 5 Gingerbreadgingerbread Cake Recipes

GINGERBREAD CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg. Combine the water and molasses. Combine the flour, ginger, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with molasses mixture, beating well after each addition. Pour into a greased 8-in. square baking pan., Bake at 350° for 28-32 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Serve warm with whipped topping.

GINGERBREAD POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 12-cup fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®) well.
• Beat butter in a mixing bowl on medium speed until soft and creamy, about 2 minutes; gradually add 1 cup white sugar, beating at medium speed for 5 to 7 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating just until yellow disappears; batter may look a bit curdled.
• Combine flour, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and baking soda in a separate bowl. Combine molasses and sour cream in another bowl. Add dry ingredients to the batter alternately with molasses mixture, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Mix on low speed until each addition is just blended. Pour into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool cake in the pan on a wire rack for 10 to 15 minutes; remove cake from pan and cool completely, about 30 minutes more.
• While cake cools, combine water, white sugar, and cornstarch in a saucepan; cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until smooth and thickened. Stir in lemon juice, butter, and lemon zest and cook until warmed through.
• Sprinkle cooled cake with powdered sugar and serve with lemon sauce.

GINGERBREAD CAKE

Steps:

• Lightly butter a 9 by 13 by 2-inch cake pan and line the bottom with a piece of parchment or wax paper. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
• In a large bowl, whisk together the oil, sugar, molasses, and crystallized ginger. Add the eggs and whisk until smooth.
• In another large bowl, whisk together the flour, ground ginger, cinnamon, salt, and cloves. Whisk the molasses mixture into the flour mixture until evenly combined.
• In a small saucepan, bring the water to a boil. Remove from the heat and stir in the baking soda. Whisk the hot water into the batter until just combined. Transfer the batter into the prepared pan. Bake the cake in the center of the oven, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Cool the cake in the pan on a rack. Cut into squares and serve with whipped cream or ice cream.

MOIST GINGERBREAD CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F Grease a loaf tin with a little vegetable oil and line with baking paper.
• In a large saucepan over a medium heat, gently stir the butter, sugar, syrup and black treacle together until the butter is melted.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the cloves, cinnamon, ginger and bicarbonate of soda. Beat in the egg and pumpkin purée, then the malted milk powder, and finally stir in the flour. Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake for 10 minutes.
• After 10 minutes, quickly pull the tin out of the oven and sprinkle the chopped crystallised ginger down the centre, then return it to the oven for a further 35 minutes. Let the loaf cool for 10 minutes in the tin before transferring it to a wire rack to cool completely.

GINGERBREAD/GINGERBREAD CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Grease and flour an 8" square pan (or use Pam).
• The ingredients listed under "cream together" should be added one ingredient at a time, creaming in between each addition.
• When you have finished adding/creaming all the liquid ingredients, keep beating the liquid mixture, folding in the dry mixture, alternating with the 2/3 cup sour milk.
• Once everything is mixed in, pour the batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake at 350°. Check for doneness by inserting a toothpick in the middle.
• When it comes out clean, it's done.