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Gingerbread Cake

This delicious, spiced cake is great for dessert and with coffee.  It's a lot like gingerbread, but not quite as heavy.

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups of flour
  • 1.5 cups of sugar
  • 2/3 cup powdered milk
  • 1.5 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1.5 tsp. powdered ginger
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • .25 tsp. ground cloves
  • 4 eggs
  • 2/3 cup of melted butter or palm kernel oil
  • 1/4 cup black molasses
  • around 1 cup of water
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract or the scrapings from inside 1 cm of a vanilla bean

Instructions:

  1. Sift the flour, baking soda, and salt into a large bowl.
  2. Stir in the ginger, cinnamon, and cloves, and the powdered milk.
  3. In a separate bowl, cream together the sugar, molasses, and oil.
  4. Add the eggs to the oil and sugar mixture, and mix until it is creamy but frothy.
  5. While mixing, add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients.  Mix them just until there are no lumps.
  6. Mix in the vanilla, and stop when it is dispersed well enough.  Do not over-mix.
  7. Cover the bowl, and let it set in the refrigerator overnight, or on the countertop for 1-2 hours.
  8. Bake at 145 C or 300 F for about 1 hour.  Check for done-ness.  Give it about 15-20 more minutes if needed.

Serving Suggestions:

Serve with whipped cream or ice cream.  You can also dust it with powdered sugar.

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