Sticky Gingerbread With Marmalade

Submitted by HappyMommy1422

"I love gingerbread and I love this recipe though I leave the raisins out. I like slicing off a hunk of this to have with a mug of tea on my commute to work in the mornings. From Fine Cooking."

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 18

ingredients

• 1 2⁄3 cups self-rising flour
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons ground ginger
• 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 2⁄3 cup dark molasses
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup orange marmalade
• 1⁄2 cup golden raisin
• 1⁄3 cup chopped crystallized ginger

directions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
2. Butter and flour a 9x9x2-inch metal baking pan.
3. Line bottome with parchment paper.
4. Sift flour and ginger into a medium bowl.
5. Using an electric mixer, beat butter in a large bowl until fluffy.
6. Beat in molasses.
7. Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions, alternately with eggs, one at a time.
8. Beat in marmalade, then raisins and crystallized ginger.
9. Transfer to baking pan.
10. Bake cake until tester (toothpick) inserted in center comes out clean, about 38 minutes, depending on oven temperature.
11. Cook cake completely in pan on rack.