Gingerbread Cake Recipes

Gingerbread Cake

   Ingredients required
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons butter
4 tbsp shortening
1 egg
1 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons of molasses
1/2 teaspoon soda
1/2 cup nuts

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Gingerbread Cake Recipe

   Mix flour, sugar, cinnamon, ginger, salt, add butter and shortening and work as for pie crust. Remove 1/2 cup of the mixture and set aside. Add egg, molasses, cream and soda and nuts to the large amount of crumbs and blend well adding a little water if necessary. Pour into 9 by 9 inch pan and sprinkle with reserved crumbs. Bake 30 minutes.

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Maple Sugar Gingerbread

   Ingredients required
1 egg
1 cup thick maple syrup
2 cups flour
1/2 cup sour milk
1/4 cup butter
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoons soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
rind and juice of one lemon

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Maple Sugar Gingerbread Recipe

   Beat butter to cream, add syrup and lemon. Dissolve soda in 1 tbsp of cold water and stir into sour milk. Add this and the egg well beaten to other ingredients, then the floor. Beat well, pour into a buttered loaf pan or 9 by 13 inch pan. This quantity will make one small loaf or a thin sheet. If baked in a loaf leave in oven 50 minutes, if baked in a sheet, 25 minutes.