How To Make A Gingerbread Cake Recipe

A gingerbread cake recipe is one we should have in our repertoire. Come the holidays (or anytime for that matter), it is nice to sit down with a moist cake that is full of warm, spicy flavors. The molasses notes with ginger and clove topped with a cream cheese frosting make one of the best cakes ever. Gingerbread cookies are good, but they don’t satisfy as well. It seems to me that gingerbread cake is less work because there is no rolling and cutting of dough involved. Just a slathering of frosting and you are on your way to cake eating.

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How To Make A Gingerbread Cake Recipe – The Simple Technique

Gingerbread cake recipes follow a pretty standard cake procedure. There really is not anything particularly special about baking them. The wet and dry ingredients are mixed separately and then blended together. One difference is the use of molasses or honey. Using syrups help make gingerbread moist and more dense. Using molasses brings a lot of deep flavors with it that makes a good flavor foundation for the spices. I have added a second gingerbread cake recipe that more closely represent a quick bread. The butter is first cut into flour (not typical in a quick bread, but I think it makes a more tender cake) then the wet ingredients are mixed and added directly to the dry. There is no use of a hand mixer and the eggs are just put right in. Both make great cakes, it just depends on whether or not ou want to spend the time cutting the butter into the flour. 

How To Make A Gingerbread Cake Recipe – The Frosting

The deep flavors of a gingerbread cake also do well with a cream cheese frosting. The tanginess brings out more of the nuances in the spices. A nice addition to the cream cheese frosting is fresh ginger. The gingery heat with the sweetness of the frosting adds nicely to the cake. The first bite is the molasses, then a little heat then creamy goodness!

Here are my gingerbread cake recipes…

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The ‘How To Make Gingerbread Cake’ video is below. It gives you all the steps outlined in the second recipe. The recipes are pretty similar. The big difference is how the butter is handled. The second recipe highlights the cutting of butter into flour. Both gingerbread cake recipes make a delicious cakes. The full recipes follow the video.

 

I hope you enjoy!

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This post was originally published in 2015. It has been updated with a video and the recipes have been refined.

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