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Ginger Bread Cake Recipe


Ginger Bread Cake Recipe Fredlinc / All my dishes
8 months, 3 weeks ago
"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 squa... More
Prep:20m Cook:40m Servings:15

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Ingredients
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup self-rising flour (or 1 cup all-purpose flour and
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder)
  • 2 cups plain flour
  • 2 sticks softened butter
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons powdered ginger
  • 2/3 cup molasses
  • 1 Tablespoon vanilla
  • 2 cups sugar (fill measuring cup to top)
  • solid shortening
  • Equipment: Pastry blender or large fork
  • flexible spatula to spread batter
  • 9 x 13" cake pan or two 8 1/2" round pans
  • cake tester or toothpicks

Directions
  1. Cream butter and sugar together.
  2. Open each egg into a cup, then beat into butter-sugar mixture one at a time.
  3. Beat in molasses.
  4. Mix together flours or baking powder and 3 cups plain flour.
  5. Beat the flour into the egg-butter-sugar batter a little at a time.
  6. Beat in vanilla and ginger.
  7. Grease the pan or pans with solid shortening, and sprinkle flour over the grease.
  8. Pour in the batter and level it with a spatula, or by shaking the pans.
  9. Bake at 350 degrees F for 40 minutes; test with wire cake tester or toothpick--done when it comes out clean.
  10. Cut into squares and serve.

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Comments

peetabear 8 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Love these old recipes.. thank you

lacrenshaw 8 months, 3 weeks ago said:
I'm with peeta on this one. That's why they call them "oldies but goodies", right? Thanks and ^5, fred!
Lorraine

gagagrits 8 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Oh I love recipes pasted down they are the best, and 15 sounds good to me to! hehehe


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