White Gingerbread Tea Cake Recipes

OLD FASHIONED GINGERBREAD CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 F
• Grease and flour an 8"x 8" square pan (or line the pan with parchment paper.) *
• Sift together dry ingredients in a large bowl.
• Add the butter, molasses and egg and beat for two minutes or 300 strokes by hand. (This is a very old recipe...)
• Add the boiling water.
• Beat for another two minutes and turn into prepared pan.
• Bake 50-55 minutes, or until cake springs back when lightly touched.

GINGER TEA CAKE

Steps:

• Position a rack in the lower third of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F.
• Line a large (4 1/2-inch by 9 1/2-inch) metal loaf pan with parchment paper and spray with nonstick cooking spray.
• Sift the flour, baking soda, ginger and salt into a medium bowl. Whisk the pumpkin, buttermilk, and vanilla in another bowl.
• Beat the butter with an electric mixer at medium speed until smooth, about 1 minute. Add the light brown sugar and continue beating until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes more. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. At low speed, add the flour mixture in 3 parts, alternating with the pumpkin mixture in 2 parts, beginning and ending with the flour. Mix briefly at medium-low speed to make a smooth batter. Turn off beaters and add the crystallized ginger. Finish folding batter--which will be thick--by hand with a rubber spatula.
• Scrape batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Bake until a cake tester inserted into the cake comes out clean and top springs back when lightly pressed, about 55 minutes. Cool in pan on a rack 10 to 15 minutes, then invert pan to release cake onto rack to cool. Dust with confectioners' sugar, if desired. Serve.

WHITE GINGERBREAD TEA CAKE

Steps:

• Mix together flour, sugar and butter until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal.
• Add 1/2 of the tsp of the cinnamon, blend.
• Set aside 1 cup of mixture.
• To the rest of the mix add, ginger, mace, salt, soda and baking powder and remaining cinnamon; stir.
• Add egg and buttermilk, beating till smooth.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured 10 inch tube pan.
• Sprinkle reserved crumb mix evenly over top.
• Bake 40 minutes, or until tester inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool and serve.

WHITE GINGERBREAD

Steps:

• Rub the butter into the flour.
• Stir in the sugar, the minced lemon-zest, ginger and nutmeg; mix well.
• Make the milk just warm, stir into the mixture with the bicarbonate of soda (baking soda), and work the mixture into a nice smooth dough.
• Roll it out, cut it into shapes.
• Bake in a moderate oven(180°C/ 350°F/ Gas Mark 4) for 15 to 20 minutes.