Moist Gingerbread Cake With Lemon Glaze
A dark, deeply moist, gingered beauty created by Karen DeMasco, the pastry chef at Locanda Verde in New York.
Served at Thanksgiving, 2009. It was VERY popular. A sophisticated taste and delicious.
Ginger is a wonderful digestive and especially welcome at the end of a great dinner pie or no pie.
Cuisine: AmericanMain Ingredient: Flour
14 people want to try | 18 have favorited
Ingredients
| Butter; for greasing |
| 2 cupsall-purpose flour |
| 1 tablespoonunsweetened cocoa powder |
| 2 1/4 teaspoonsbaking powder |
| 1 1/2 teaspoonscinnamon |
| 1/8 teaspoonnutmeg; preferably fresh |
| 3/4 teaspoonsalt |
| 1 cupdark brown sugar; packed |
| 3 tablespoonsturbinado sugar |
| 2 1/2 tablespoonsfinely grated fresh ginger; (a 2-ounce piece, peeled) |
| 2 lemons; grated, zest of |
| 1/2 cupgrapeseed oil |
| 1 largeegg |
| 3/4 cupstout beer |
| 3/4 cupmolasses |
| 1/3 cupbrewed coffee |
| 3/4 teaspoonbaking soda |
| 1 cupConfectioners Sugar; sifted |
| 2 tablespoonslemon juice. |
Moist Gingerbread Cake With Lemon Glaze Preparation
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees (convection: 300?). Grease an 8-inch springform cake pan and line bottom with parchment paper. (My springform pan is 10". I used this recipe adapted to 10 servings, using only 1 egg. It was great.)
2. In a bowl, whisk flour, cocoa, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Set aside. In a large bowl combine brown sugar, turbinado, ginger, zest of 1 lemon and oil. Beat in egg.
3. Place beer, molasses and coffee in a deep pot, at least 3 quarts. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in baking soda. Mixture will bubble up. Allow to cool 5 minutes.
4. Whisk flour mixture alternately with beer mixture into brown sugar mixture, in 3 shifts. Pour batter in pan and bake 40 minutes without opening oven. Give pan a 180-degree turn and bake another 15 minutes, until cake is springy and a tester comes out clean. Cool on a rack. When cool, remove sides of pan, invert briefly to remove bottom of pan and paper and set upright on a plate.
5. Place confectioners sugar in a bowl, whisk in remaining zest and salt, then lemon juice. Spread over top of cake, allowing glaze to drip down the sides.
Notes
Pay close attention to the cooking time - turn and the cook for another 15 minutes. Toothpick test too early will deflate the center of the cake.
Link to another BigOven recipe
Add a link to another recipe! What would you serve with this?
Want detailed nutrition information, including line-by-line nutrition insights? Try BigOven Pro for Free for 14 days!
| Date | My private notes | |
|---|---|---|
|
Add notes with BigOven Pro!
|
You may also enjoy
Tags
Blogger? Grab a link to this recipe
Want a link to this recipe? Just copy the text below and paste it into your blog:
here's how it will appear in your blog:
×Add to on:
+ Favorites
+ Try Soon
+ Menu Planner
+ Grocery List
