Sticky Gingerbread With Marmalade Recipes

RICH AND STICKY GINGERBREAD WITH MARMALADE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F. Butter and flour 9x9x2-inch metal baking pan; line bottom with parchment paper.
• Sift flour and ground ginger into medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until fluffy. Beat in molasses. Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions alternately with eggs, 1 at a time. Beat in marmalade, then raisins, and crystallized ginger. Transfer to prepared baking pan.
• Bake cake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 38 minutes. Cool cake completely in pan on rack. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and let stand at room temperature.)
• Cut cake into 9 squares. Cut each square in half, making eighteen 1 1/2x3-inch pieces.

BLACK STICKY GINGERBREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325. Lightly grease a 9 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan and line the bottom with a piece of parchment paper that has been cut to hang over two opposite edges by a couple of inches. This overhang will make removing the cake from the pan clean and simple.
• Combine the butter, water, molasses, honey and brown sugar in a medium non-reactive saucepan and place over low heat. Stir the mixture frequently until the butter is melted, and all of the ingredients are well blended. Remove from the heat, pour into a large bowl and set aside to cool.
• Meanwhile, sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, allspice and cloves, and set aside. When the molasses mixture feels just warm to the touch, add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the milk and stir to combine. Fold the dry ingredients into the batter in four additions, using big, long strokes. Don't be concerned if you can't get all the lumps out--settle for most of them! Stir in the grated ginger.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake in the center of the oven for 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours, or until the top of the cake springs back when touched and a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean. Allow to cool for 15 minutes, then, using the overhang of parchment, lift the cake out of the pan and cool completely on a wire rack before cutting. Well-wrapped in plastic, this gingerbread actually improves with age. If stored at room temperature, it will have a sponge-cakey texture and will keep for about 4 days. Refrigerated, it becomes stickier, denser, and wonderfully chewy and will last at least a week. Allow the cake to return to room temperature before serving. This cake is fabulous warm, and the only adornment it needs is mounds of softly whipped cream.

STICKY GINGERBREAD WITH MARMALADE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
• Butter and flour a 9x9x2-inch metal baking pan.
• Line bottome with parchment paper.
• Sift flour and ginger into a medium bowl.
• Using an electric mixer, beat butter in a large bowl until fluffy.
• Beat in molasses.
• Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions, alternately with eggs, one at a time.
• Beat in marmalade, then raisins and crystallized ginger.
• Transfer to baking pan.
• Bake cake until tester (toothpick) inserted in center comes out clean, about 38 minutes, depending on oven temperature.
• Cook cake completely in pan on rack.

MARMALADE GINGERBREAD

Steps:

• In a bowl, mix together first 7 ingredients, set aside.
• In another bowl, cream butter, blend in sugar, egg, marmalade and molasses.
• Add flour mixture to creamed mixture, stir to combine.
• Stir in boiling water, batter will be smooth.
• Pour batter into a 8" square cake pan which has been lined with greased parchment paper.
• Bake in 325F degree oven for 45-50 minutes.
• Best served warm.
• I have served this as a dessert topped with whipped cream! Yummy!