Chocolate Gingerbread 1974
"sweet spicy cake, good for the holiday season or gift giving."
- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Yields:
-
1 9inch cake
ingredients
- 3 ounces bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 1⁄2 1/2 cup honey or 1/2 cup corn syrup
- 1⁄2 cup canola oil
- 4 tablespoons room temperature butter
- 2 1⁄2 cups unbleached flour, sift before measuring
- 2⁄3 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1⁄4 teaspoon fresh ground nutmeg
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 inch peeled and grated fresh ginger
- 1 cup fresh buttermilk, room temperature
- 2⁄3 cup semisweet mini chocolate chips
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Lightly grease sides and bottom of a 9 inch spring form pan.
- Also line the bottom of pan with parchment paper.
- Melt the 3 ounces chocolate with the syrup, oil, and butter in a double boiler, over simmering water.
- Stir until melted and smooth.
- Remove from heat.
- Stir again well.
- In a large bowl, whisk the measured flour, brown sugar,soda, powder, spices, and salt well.
- In a small bowl beat the eggs until foamy, add vanilla and grated ginger and buttermilk.
- Make a well in the centre of dry flour mixture and pour in the buttermilk mixture.
- Stir with wooden spoon to combine well.
- Beat in the chocolate mixture with wooden spoon or electric mixer.
- Stir in the mini chocoalte chips.
- Pour into prepared lined pan.
- Bake 35 to 40 minutes, until tester comes away clean.
- Let cool in pan for ten minutes or so, and then remove cake from pan.
- Dust with sifted powdered icing sugar before serving.
- This is good fresh same day, and warm, or mellow for a day before serving.
- Wraped in saran this will keep for one week.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
andypandy
Canada
Grandmother of two boys, great grandmother of one ...worked in hardware and construction for forty years, read all cookbooks, watch all cook shows on tv. like to cook all types of new recipes.
