Gingerbread Cake

This is my first attempt at making gingerbread and I couldn’t be happier.  I’d always been biased against gingerbread thinking it would taste like the very adorable, but often dry and hard gingerbread cookies you see at Christmastime.  Last Christmas I got a silicone cake pan that makes 6 small gingerbread cakes so I decided to give it a shot.  My criteria for choosing a recipe was that I already had all of the ingredients in the house which is how I stumbled on this one from the King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion.

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