Gingerbread Cake With Brown Sugar Sauce
"A delightful discovery I made in my Company's Coming 'Lunches' cookbook. The original recipe includes a lemon sauce, but we prefer brown sugar sauce with a generous dollop of whipped cream rather. Or a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Mmm, and the smell...
**Update Aug '09: Forget brown sugar sauce! Make a double recipe as a sheet cake (bake for only 20 minutes @ 325) with a double recipe of Recipe#127144! I don't know why I haven't updated this sooner -- I've been making it this way for at least the last 2 years already!!"
photo by Charmie777
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 16
- Serves:
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9
ingredients
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Cake
- 1 large egg
- 1⁄2 cup canola oil
- 1⁄2 cup molasses
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 3⁄4 teaspoon ginger
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 cup boiling water
- 1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
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Brown Sugar Sauce
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1⁄4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
directions
- For cake: Beat egg in mixing bowl until frothy. Beat in cooking oil and molasses.
- Add sugar, ginger, cloves, cinnamon and salt. Beat slowly to combine.
- Dissolve baking soda in boiling water and add to batter. Slowly mix in flour.
- Turn into greased 8x8 or 9x9 pan. Bake at 350°F for about 35-40 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Serve warm with brown sugar sauce. (Freezes well).
- For sauce: Mix brown sugar, flour and salt together well in medium saucepan. (This enables water to be mixed in with no lumps).
- Stir in water and vanilla. Heat, stirring, over medium heat until sauce boils and thickens (makes about 2 1/2 cups). Serve warm.
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Reviews
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Very good cake. Doubled the recipe and served with whipped cream. Everybody loved it.<br/><br/>Didn't make the brown sugar sauce. -
This was my first time baking a gingerbread cake. I doubled the all ingredients with the exception of the cinnamon that I increased to 1 1/2 teaspoon because I do love cinnamon. Baked in a 9x13 pan for about 37 minutes at the temperature stated. The cake is wonderful, so moist and a perfect balance of spices. Not too over powering in my opinion. Also made the Caramel Cream frosting! A perfect pairing! Thank you for sharing your recipe! -
This Brown Sugar Sauce was such a great find! I've recently needed to find dairy-free, fat-free recipes for a relative and this sure is a nice way to top off a nice gingerbread or other kind of cake. Everyone liked it.<br/><br/>Nov./ 2011 - Just made this again and got rave reviews from everyone! I served it with the warm Brown Sugar Sauce, a little whipped cream and garnished it with sliced crystallized candied ginger. Fabulous! Thanks again.
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Loved the cake! <br/> Hated the sauce, even after adding butter to help with the taste! <br/>The cake can stand on its own without the additive of the sauce!<br/> If you really want to have it warmed up with a bit of vanilla ice cream! Delicious!!!! -
This was great, I got my Husband to make it because I cant bake for the life of me. But I did make the sauce. We gave them out as gifts to our friends and family. Was an easy recipe with great results!
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<p>I live in beautiful western Manitoba, Canada. I'm a wife and stay-at-home mom with 2 daughters, Peanut (who turned 7 at the end of January) and Fidget (who will turn 5 in the middle of June) and a husband whom I call The Bushman, who's motto, lucky for me, is I'll try anything once! I'm a Mennonite by heritage as well as faith. I'm a born again Christian and we belong to a small Evangelical Mennonite country church where The Bushman and I are fairly involved. The church is made up largely of family groups -- most are related somehow. That's actually a Mennonite pastime, finding out how everyone's related to each other. If we're not directly related, we'll find a connection somehow -- your third cousin's wife's brother is for SURE my mother's father's sister-in-law's nephew!! See, isn't it amazing how small this world really is?! For fun, I enjoy photography -- my favourite subjects are sunsets, cloud formations, my girls, and nature close-ups -- reading, (John Grisham, Frederick Forsythe, Robert Ludlum, and Clive Cussler are my favourite authors), playing piano, and going for nice long walks, either first thing in the morning or towards sunset. I've even learned to enjoy it in the dead of winter, when I have no choice but to walk in semi-darkness. For those of you who've never experienced a Manitoba winter (lucky you!), 'the dead of winter' includes pretty much all of December, January, and February!! And up here, our shortest days of the year have only 7 hours of daylight, so if it's cloudy, well, it feels like no daylight at all! It's my favourite time to plan my day, pray, and daydream about what might happen if I'd ever actually buy a lottery ticket and win!! I love cooking -- baking not so much (mostly because it's not essential to survival and if there's baking in the house, that's all we eat!!) -- and reading recipe books is a favourite pastime of mine. I love the Company's Coming series of cookbooks, but my favourite is Taste of Home magazine. Since buying a premium membership here though, I've decided to let my subscription run out. I'll miss it, but I've decided there's really no need for it, since all the best recipes in the world eventually end up here!!</p>
