Ginger Bread cake
From fredlinc 15 years ago
- 40 minutes to make
- Serves 15
"Nice old fashioned sheet cake from family of Wilma Chavis." "Mom Chavis' Ginger Bread" is found in The American Ethnic Cookbook for Students, by Mark Zanger. Recipe from Lumbee Indians of North Carolina and says it yields 30 squares. Read more We like large pieces of cake, so I think 15 servings is just right. See less
Ingredients
- 3 eggs shopping list
- 1 cup self-rising flour (or 1 cup all-purpose flour and shopping list
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder) shopping list
- 2 cups plain flour shopping list
- 2 sticks softened butter shopping list
- 1 1/2 teaspoons powdered ginger shopping list
- 2/3 cup molasses shopping list
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla shopping list
- 2 cups sugar (fill measuring cup to top) shopping list
- solid shortening shopping list
- Equipment: Pastry blender or large fork shopping list
- flexible spatula to spread batter shopping list
- 9 x 13" cake pan or two 8 1/2" round pans shopping list
- cake tester or toothpicks shopping list
How to make it
- Cream butter and sugar together.
- Open each egg into a cup, then beat into butter-sugar mixture one at a time.
- Beat in molasses.
- Mix together flours or baking powder and 3 cups plain flour.
- Beat the flour into the egg-butter-sugar batter a little at a time.
- Beat in vanilla and ginger.
- Grease the pan or pans with solid shortening, and sprinkle flour over the grease.
- Pour in the batter and level it with a spatula, or by shaking the pans.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 40 minutes; test with wire cake tester or toothpick--done when it comes out clean.
- Cut into squares and serve.
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Oh I love recipes pasted down they are the best, and 15 sounds good to me to! hehehe
gagagrits
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I'm with peeta on this one. That's why they call them "oldies but goodies", right? Thanks and ^5, fred!
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love these old recipes.. thank you
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