World's best gingerbread

Updated at: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 23:59:35 GMT

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Step 2

Cream butter and sugar; add molasses, buttermilk, ginger, and cinnamon, beat together

Step 3

To the wet mixture beat in eggs

Step 4

Mix together flour and baking soda

Step 5

Combine wet and dry mixtures

Step 6

Grease a 9x13 pan or two bread pans.

Step 7

Bake for approximately 45 minutes or until cooked. Let cool

Step 8

Read the comments, or simply follow the modern write-up recipe that user /Twizzyu added to the comments. This recipe contains the tweaks that the original poster has added (and that I used as well), plus it is in a more familiar structure than the original cookbook photo.

Step 9

Use fresh spices. This is not the place to use up dusty old spices. This soft ginger cake is packed with sticky, strongly flavored molasses, and if you want the dried ginger and cinnamon to stand out, make sure to use fresh bottles.

Step 10

Slice and freeze. The original poster shared photos from a big baking day where a triple batch of this cake was made. Follow the OP’s lead and make extra, then cut into slices and freeze for future snacking and last-minute desserts.

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