Gingerbread

Category: Breads, Cakes
  • 1 cup milk or water
  • 1/2 cup (118 ml) molasses
  • 1/2 cup (118 ml) honey
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, cut into slices
  • 1/2 cup (100 g) sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2.5 cups (300 g) all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp kosher salt
  • 1 tbsp cinnamon
  • 2 tsp ground ginger
  • 1.5 tsp baking soda

  1. Preheat oven to 350°.
  2. Make parchment sling for pan.
  3. Combine milk, molasses, honey and butter in a quart glass measuring cup and microwave until butter is almost melted, then stir to finish melting butter. Set aside.
  4. In large bowl, combine flour, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and baking soda.
  5. Stir sugar into wet mixture, then stir in egg and whisk until smooth.
  6. Pour wet mixture into dry and whisk just until smooth.
  7. Pour batter into loaf pan.
  8. Bake about 1 hour. Toothpick test. Should look slightly raw on surface.
  9. Remove from pan and cool completely before cutting. Becomes more dense and moist the next day.

Published Dec 20, 2021 and last updated Sep 11, 2022.