Moist Gingerbread Recipes

FAVORITE OLD FASHIONED GINGERBREAD

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.

GINGERBREAD CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg. Combine the water and molasses. Combine the flour, ginger, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with molasses mixture, beating well after each addition. Pour into a greased 8-in. square baking pan., Bake at 350° for 28-32 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Serve warm with whipped topping.

MOIST, TENDER SPICE CAKE: GINGERBREAD VARIATION

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and lightly flour a metal or disposable foil 9-by-13-inch pan. Whisk dry ingredients and spices in a large bowl. Mix milk, eggs, molasses and vanilla extract in a 2-cup measuring cup.
• Beat softened butter into dry ingredients, first on low, then medium, until mixture forms pebble-sized pieces. Add about 1/3 of the milk mixture and beat on low until smooth. Add remaining milk mixture in two stages; beat on medium speed until batter is just smooth. Add the sugar; beat until just incorporated, about 30 seconds. Pour batter into cake pan.
• Bake until a cake tester or toothpick inserted into the cake's center comes out clean, about 40 minutes. Set pan on a wire rack; let cool for 5 minutes. Run a knife around the pan perimeter and turn cake onto rack. Let cool.

BEST-EVER GINGERBREAD

Steps:

• Set oven to 350°.
• In a bowl, combine sugar, salt, ginger, cinnamon and cloves.
• Stir in the oil, then the molasses, mixing well.
• Mix soda with boiling water and immediately stir into the mixture.
• Gradually blend in the flour, to prevent lumping.
• Then mix in eggs.
• Turn into greased 9 x 13x2-inch pan and bake in a 350° oven about 40-45 minutes.

MOIST GINGERBREAD CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F Grease a loaf tin with a little vegetable oil and line with baking paper.
• In a large saucepan over a medium heat, gently stir the butter, sugar, syrup and black treacle together until the butter is melted.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the cloves, cinnamon, ginger and bicarbonate of soda. Beat in the egg and pumpkin purée, then the malted milk powder, and finally stir in the flour. Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake for 10 minutes.
• After 10 minutes, quickly pull the tin out of the oven and sprinkle the chopped crystallised ginger down the centre, then return it to the oven for a further 35 minutes. Let the loaf cool for 10 minutes in the tin before transferring it to a wire rack to cool completely.

MARY BERRY'S GINGERBREAD CAKE

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!

MOIST GINGERBREAD

Steps:

• Grease an 18 to 20 cm square cake tin and line with greased greaseproof paper
• put marg treacle and syrup into a saucepan heat gently until marg has melted stirring from time to time remove from heat and add milk
• allow to cool for 5 mins and add eggs
• seive the dry ingredients into a bowl then add treacle mix and beat well together
• pour into the prepared cake tin and cook in a very moderate oven for 1 to 1.25 hours at 170c 325f gas mark 3
• turn out of tin and cool on wire rack and keep in airtight tin for 3 days then enjoy
• n be eaten once cooled if you cant wait