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Moist Gingerbread Cake With Lemon Glaze
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Moist Gingerbread Cake With Lemon Glaze

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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

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Ingredients

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Original recipe makes 8 Servings
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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.

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  • Moist Gingerbread Cake ( I added a cinnamon spice glaze) photo by LillianRusso LillianRusso

Calories Per Serving: 694
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  1. Desserts
  2. Fall
  3. Thanksgiving
  4. Winter

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