Gingerbread cake is a spiced and delicious cake made with molasses and gingerbread spices like cinnamon, ginger, and cloves.
Gingerbread Cake
Gingerbread is the term used for baked goodies which consist of few spices like ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg along with brown sugar and molasses. Whether it is gingerbread man cookies, gingersnaps or gingerbread cake, there are so many options.
This recipe is eggless and tastes absolutely delicious with a glass of wine. Molasses gives a very nice smoky flavors to the cake.
Ingredients Needed to make Gingerbread Cake
- All-purpose flour: Maida or all-purpose flour is used to make chunky and crispy ginger snap cookies. You can also use plain flour instead.
- Sugar: Brown or white granulated sugar.
- Spices and Salt: Ground ginger, cloves and cinnamon and a dash of salt.
- Baking soda: Acts as a leavening agent and will help spread the shape of cookies.
- Dark molasses: Adds that nice flavor and makes the cookies more crispy. It can be replaced with black treacle.
- Butter: Unsalted butter at room temperature.
- Buttermilk: To bind the dough and replace the eggs.
How to make Gingerbread Cake?
Step 1. Make batter– Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Grease a 9″ square cake tin and dust it with flour. In a bowl whisk flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and salt. In another bowl add boiling water, butter, brown sugar, buttermilk, and molasses. Mix till butter melts.
Now mix the wet ingredients with dry and whisk until well combined.
Step 2. Bake the cake– Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 35 minutes or until done.
Serving Suggestions
Serve the gingerbread cake with a glass of wine or pair them with your coffee and tea. They make a wonderful tea time cake.
Pro Tips
- Make sure to use fresh baking soda to make these cakes. Sometimes, if soda is old it won’t make the best cake.
- For best results do not overmix the cake batter.
- If you do not have molasses or black treacle, you can use honey and brown sugar paste instead.
- Store the leftover cake in the refrigerator in airtight containers.
Like gingerbread cake try these recipes…
- Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake (+Video)
- Vegan Carrot Banana Cake
- Eggless Black Forest Cake
- Mango Lassi Cake
- Mocha Coffee Cake
Looking for more such yummy Christmas recipes to get some ideas for your snacking? Do not miss my Christmas Cake and Christmas Fruit Cupcakes and the best ones’s Christmas Shortbread Cookies.
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Gingerbread Cake
Equipment
- Cake tin
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 4 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 2/3 cup dark brown sugar
- 2/3 cup molasses
- 2/3 cup boiling water
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Grease a 9″ square cake tin and dust it with flour.
- In a bowl whisk flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and salt.
- In another bowl add boiling water, butter, brown sugar, buttermilk, and molasses. Mix till butter melts.
- Now mix the wet ingredients with dry and whisk until well combined.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 35 minutes or until done.
- Cool the cake completely before slicing.
Notes
- Make sure to use fresh baking soda to make these cakes. Sometimes, if soda is old it won’t make the best cake.
- For best results do not overmix the cake batter.
- If you do not have molasses or black treacle, you can use honey and brown sugar paste instead.
- Store the leftover cake in the refrigerator in airtight containers.
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Ginger bread cake brings the holiday mood, fantastic baked goodies;.
Wow ginger bread looks so divine ,lovely,just pass me a slice
Gingerbread flavor is perfect during winter. Looks great with the dusting of sugar.
The cake looks yum..interesting with all the spices. Bookmarking.
so flavorful and aromatic!!! the entire house would be smelling the great aroma of ginger!!!
Cake looks very yummy.
Am a huge fan of these spiced cakes.. Has come out so well, an tempted to make these .. If i halve the recipe, approx how much buttermilk wil I need sapana ??
Spiced cakes are perfect for holidays and the whole house just smells amazing when baking.
Perfect for the winter,cake looks spongy and soft…
I have tried Gingerbread cookies. Cake is new. Looks yum
So soft and moist, prefect.
That is one moist & fluffy looking spicy gingerbread cake. Looks yumm!!
Gingerbread rings the holiday season!! Happy new Year. Looks yum.
Wow! Looks great! Love the spiced cakes.
The cake has a beautiful texture and colour..very nice!
You will have to adjust the cooking time or the temperature. I baked this cake at 180 degrees for 35 minutes and it was no where near done.
Thank you for trying the recipe and the feedback. It may depend on the oven, I guess. Mine was done in 35 minutes.
Not sure the oven temp is correct – recipe says 180 – it did not cook through so, I turned up oven to 350 – hoping it’s ok!