mom's amazing gingerbread cake

Name: Mom's Amazing Gingerbread Cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 40 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: English
Ingredients: 1 3/4 cup(s) all purpose flour; 2 teaspoon(s) ground ginger; 1 teaspoon(s) ground cinnamon; 1/2 teaspoon(s) ground cloves; 1/2 teaspoon(s) ground nutmeg; 1/2 teaspoon(s) ground allspice; 1 teaspoon(s) hershey's cocoa powder; 1/2 teaspoon(s) baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon(s) salt; 3/4 cup(s) light molasses; 3/4 cup(s) sugar; 8 tablespoon(s) (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted and cooled; 1 large egg, at room temperature; 1 cup(s) buttermilk, at room temperature

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Fran Murray

Fountain Hills, AZ

Updated on Dec 31, 2013

My husband loves anything with ginger and molasses in it! This is a wonderfully rich, dark, moist cake. It has a lot of ingredients, but it is well worth the effort.

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prep time 20 Min

cook time 40 Min

method Bake

yield 6 to 9

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1 teaspoon hershey's cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup light molasses
3/4 cup sugar
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1 large egg, at room temperature
1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature

How To Make mom's amazing gingerbread cake

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Lightly coat a 9-inch square cake pan with vegetable oil spray. Whisk the flour, spices, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt together in a medium bowl and set aside.

Step 2

Beat the molasses, sugar and melted butter together in a large bowl with an electric mixer on low speed until combined, 1 to 3 minutes.
Step 3

Beat in the egg until incorporated. Beat in the buttermilk until incorporated, scraping down the bowl and beaters as needed. Add the flour mixture, increase the speed to medium, and beat until the batter is smooth and thick, 1 to 3 minutes, scraping down the bowl and beaters as needed.
Step 4

Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Bake until a wooden skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out with a few crumbs attached, about 40 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through baking.
Step 5

Let the cake cool in the pan. Serve warm or let cool completely, about 2 hours. Dust cake with powdered sugar, if desired.
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