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Gingerbread Snack Cake is bite sized but is not small on flavor.  There’s fresh ginger, ground ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg in this delicious, bite-sized snack cake.

I am all about the gingerbread for the holidays. Actually, I could pound some gingerbread all year. In the cookie world, it’s peanut butter, gingerbread, and then oatmeal raisin to round out my top three.

Yes, I realize this is cake. For the cake world, it’s the darkest chocolate cake you can make with the darkest chocolate frosting you can make. And please just a thin layer of frosting. I’m not one of those people. The less the better in my book. I want to taste the cake.

After that it’s gingerbread cake with a nice and light cream cheese frosting then it’s either a carrot or spice cake. They’re pretty much the same in my book. Also, with a cream cheese frosting.

So, as you can see, I’m totally #teamgingerbread. I even have a Pinterest board for all things gingerbread. It only gets love once a year, for the most part. Because people don’t share things that are gingerbread outside of the holiday season. Maybe I’ll change that and make some gingerbread goodies throughout the year!

I have had this gingerbread snack cake on the menu for a while. Since last year I think. For whatever reason, it didn’t get made last year. But I wanted to make sure I made it this year. Because classic gingerbread cake is something that just makes the holidays so much better.

As you can see, this is a dark gingerbread cake. It’s the combination of the molasses along with all the cinnamon and nutmeg that goes into this cake. Mainly the combination of the cinnamon and molasses. And the type of molasses, I’m sure. I always use the standard brand at the grocery store.

However, while I was climbing around in the pantry, I did find a jar of sorghum from a farmer’s market. I was tempted to use that, but I think I’ll hang on it and use it for some biscuits. I may make some biscuits this holiday season and that would really bring home the comfort food for the season for me.

While they taste similar, they’re not the same thing.

Sorghum is from the sorghum plant whole molasses is the byproduct of making sugar. The first boil of the sugar is molasses. Then it gets boiled again. Not sure what that produces, but it’s the third boil that makes black strap molasses. Just thought I’d throw in some schooling for ya.

And a little more schooling about gingerbread. Gingerbread was originally just preserved ginger until about 2400 BC. That’s when hard cookies made of ginger surfaced. Sometimes they were gilded with gold and in the shapes of animals, kings, and queens. Of course, it was a very popular queen, Elizabeth I, that started the trend of decorating the cookies.  She had some fashioned after people in her court.

Of course, that explains the cookies, but what about the cake? It’s history isn’t as defined other than to be lumped in with the hole gingerbread trend in general. Gingerbread came to the Americas with the settlers. And since molasses was cheaper than sugar, gingerbread gained popularity. Not to mention molasses makes for a moister cake.

And that’s definitely true! This is a moist gingerbread snack cake. No, the hubs didn’t have a piece. But I did have like three pieces. Of them sat on my desk for a few hours and while the outside was crispy, the inside was just as moist. I hope there’s still some when I go back into the office Thursday.

Remember, I told you I loved gingerbread, right?

Now, if you want to make this a gingerbread bundt cake instead of a snack cake, I’d double the recipe. As you can there, there’s not a lot of cake in that 8×8 pan there. And you’d have to double the frosting, too. Which is rather simple and rather delicious if I do say so myself.

This is one of the best snack cake recipes I’ve made. Granted, I haven’t made that many, but this is up there with the pumpkin snack cake. It might even top that snack cake recipe. It ties with the banana snack cake with peanut butter glaze because peanut butter. Peanut butter trumps just about everything in my book. But I know some who would say otherwise.

You can see the light coating of cream cheese frosting on there. For me, it was the perfect amount. For others, they might want a little more. Or like a lot more. If we had store bought cake, I’d scrape the icing of my pieces for the most part. Then Dad would scrape my icing onto his plate.

Yes. That is a tiny piece of cake on the plate.

I don’t have tiny plates. They’re called saucers if I have something that small. This is one of the smallest plates I have in my arsenal. But this is a snack cake. Yes, you can cut yours bigger if you want. But this snack cake is meant to be a few bites. Yes. I did say I had like 3 pieces. But only 2 were on the same day.

See how dark that is? And check out that crumb! I did the one thing I’ve never done with cake, but always hard about. And I’ve even heard that pastry chefs do this, too. I combined the flour with the butter.

Yes! I put the flour and butter together in the mixture.

You do that with biscuits and scones and pastry dough. I’ve never heard of it with cake. But I read one recipe a long time ago. And then I read another one just recently looking up gingerbread cake recipes. Just one. All the others had the butter and sugar creamed together.

I tried it. And it made for the lightest and most moist cake. This combined with the molasses made for an even moister cake. If that was even possible. I’m here to tell you that this gingerbread snack cake is one of these best cake recipes I’ve made. So, I hope you try it this holiday season. You won’t be disappointed.

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