Gingerbread Cakes Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9-inch square pan.
• In a large bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in the egg, and mix in the molasses.
• In a bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Blend into the creamed mixture. Stir in the hot water. Pour into the prepared pan.
• Bake 1 hour in the preheated oven, until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow to cool in pan before serving.

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.

Steps:

• For cake:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat pan with nonstick spray. Line bottom with parchment paper; spray paper. Whisk flour and next 5 ingredients in a medium bowl. Place butter in a large bowl. Pour 1/2 cup boiling water over; whisk until melted. Whisk in sugar and next 3 ingredients. Add dry ingredients; whisk to blend. Transfer to prepared pan.
• Bake until a tester inserted into center of cake comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes. Invert onto a wire rack; let cool. Remove parchment.
• For topping:
• Beat cream and sugar in a medium bowl until firm peaks form. Fold in curd, leaving swirls. Spread over cake. Garnish with zest.

Steps:

• This mix makes enough to fill 2 x standard 7inch Victoria sandwitch tins or 1 x 10inch diameter tin. Grease and base line your tin(s) with baking paper; preheat the oven to 160C/325F/Gas 3.
• Gently heat the margarine, sugar and treacle together in a pan, stirring until smooth. Allow to cool a little.
• In a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour and ground spices. Pour in the treacle mix and stir thoroughly to combine. Mince the stem ginger finely and stir with the eggs into the mix.
• Warm the milk gently in a saucepan, stirring gently to avoid it burning at the base of the pan. Add the bicarb of soda and let it foam a little. Stir into the gingerbread mixture until well blended.
• Pour into the prepared tin(s).
• Baking time: for 2x 7 inch cakes is 25-30mins (bake both together). For 1x 10inch cake bake for approx 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
• This cake keeps really well in an airtight tin, and actually improves over the first 2-3 days. Enjoy!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut two 9-inch squares of parchment paper to line the bottoms of two 9-inch square baking pans. Butter pans; line with squares of parchment. Butter linings and then flour pans, tapping out excess. Set pans aside.
• Stir together baking soda and boiling water; set aside. Whisk flour, spices, salt, and baking powder in a medium bowl.
• Put butter and brown sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Cream on medium speed until fluffy, about 4 minutes. Mix in the molasses and eggs, scraping down sides of bowl, until creamy, about 4 minutes. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture in three batches, alternating with two batches of the baking-soda mixture; mix until flour is incorporated. Raise speed to high; mix until all ingredients are well combined, about 15 seconds. Stir batter several times with a rubber spatula, scraping the bottom of bowl.
• Divide batter between prepared pans. Bake until a cake tester inserted into centers comes out clean, about 40 minutes (do not open oven door during baking). Let cool in pans on wire racks for 20 minutes. Run a thin knife around sides of cakes to loosen; unmold. Peel off parchment. Let cool completely on racks.