Gingerbread I

I love anything with molasses and this nice, easy recipe for gingerbread was no exception. It had good texture and moisture, but it lacked something which I can’t put my finger on.

Fluffy and moist but very little ginger / spice flavor. I really want to taste the ginger. Will try again in future with spice adjustments.

This is such an easy recipe! I put everything in my kitchenaid mixer, mixed, and poured it into my pyrex. It made my house smell amazing! I didn't put any powdered sugar on top, but it would be a pretty addition.

I made this cake as the recipe states, with one exception. I only had dark molasses, so I replaced about 1/3 of the amount with clear Karo corn syrup. I thought this cake tasted good, but did not have the pronounced ginger flavor I wanted and I thought that it was just a little on the dry side. I served it with a vanilla custard sauce (I just used 1/2 my homemade vanilla pudding recipe and added more milk)which made up for the dryness. I think that more powdered ginger (or a little fresh) and maybe the addition of a little bit of yogurt or sour cream (1/4 C.?) would bring this up to 5 stars.

In my preivious review I said I would take it to work, and strangly almost everyone loved it. The Japanese are not really into spicy cakes but so many people went back for seconds and thirds. Some people could not eat a mouthful! I personally loved it, nice and spicy!