Old-Fashioned Gingerbread

Recipe courtesy Ina Garten

Show: Dear Food NetworkEpisode: Thanksgiving Desserts

Rated: 4 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (41)

RECIPE
COMMENTS & REVIEWS(41)

Cook Time:
45 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
9 servings

Times:

Prep: 30 min
Inactive Prep: 1 hr 35 min
Cook: 45 min
Total:: 2 hr 50 min

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Ingredients

1/4 cup dark rum or water
1/2 cup golden raisins
1/4 pound (1 stick) unsalted butter
1 cup unsulphured molasses
1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
1 1/2 teaspoons grated orange zest
2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/3 cup minced dried crystallized ginger (not in syrup)
1 cup confectioners' sugar, optional
2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon freshly squeezed orange juice

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease an 8 by 8-inch cake pan and line with parchment paper. Grease and flour the pan.

Place the rum and raisins in a small pan, cover and heat until the rum boils. Turn off the heat and set aside. Place the butter and molasses in another small pan and bring to a boil over medium heat. Pour the mixture into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Cool for 5 minutes, then mix in the sour cream and orange zest.

Meanwhile, sift the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and salt together in a small bowl. Mix with your hands until combined. With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the flour mixture to the molasses mixture and mix only until smooth. Drain the raisins and add them and crystallized ginger to the mixture with a spatula. Pour into the prepared pan and bake for about 35 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean. Set aside to cool completely.

When the cake has cooled, whisk together the confectioners' sugar and orange juice and pour it onto the gingerbread, allowing it to drip down the sides. Allow the glaze to set. Cut the gingerbread into 9 squares.

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Ron Aurora, CO 11-26-2009
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Turned out perfect!!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I didn't have the mixture turn out too clumpy or ball up when the dry ingrediants mixed w/ the wet. The other reviews may... have packed the measuring cup while measuring out the flour. Make sure when you mearure the flour its fluffy in the measuring cup. In any case, this has wonderful flavor and can't wait to bake it again for Christmas.Read more
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null null, null 11-26-2009
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Don't
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

Don't even think about trying this recipe. I have been cooking for 45 years and have never had such an easy dessert turn out... so badly. We threw it out. I guess we could have used it as a rock in the garden but didn't think of that.Read more
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null null, null 11-25-2009
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Help! Too Dense
Rated: 3 stars out of 5

I've made this twice jsut to see what I did wrong. The batter does not POUR at all like on the show, or as described by other... on this post. It balls up in the mixer almost like bread dough. I had to pread it out by hand - pushing and mashing it into the sides and corners of the pan, or with a small roller to get it to spread out in the pan. Something must be wrong...toos much flour? Not enought sour cream? Others have said the reslult it dense. Mine was too...much mour dense, and not as think, as that shown on the show. It looked like a dense cake. Mine turns out mor like dense, fry brownies. I even tried dooking it for less time on the secon d try.Read more
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Kathy Canton, MA 11-24-2009
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No EGGS needed
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I'm glad to find a recipe for dessert that doesn't require eggs. My daughter is allergic to eggs. I hope she'll lke this... one. I don't usually give her sweets because of her allergies. I'm going to try this recipe and substitue the sour cream with no fat greek yogurt to add more nutrition. I wonder if that will change the flavor that much. I used greek yogurt on banana bread without much difference.Read more
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Lyne Greenbrier, AR 11-23-2009
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WOOPS
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

did any one else notice Ina said 3/4 of a CUP of baking soda instead of 3/4 of a teaspon? when she was doing this show on TV... Food Network Thanksgiving For you newbies out there I hope you read the recipe, It is delicious!!!!Read more
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Alyssa New Hyde Park, NY 11-23-2009
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question...
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

can someone tell me if this is the same recipe Ina made last week or is this an older one? i don't remember her putting this... orange glaze on the one i saw last week. i also don't see listed here the rum whipped cream she put on top of the gingerbread she made last week. is this the same recipe? if i am using the rum whipped cream, should i also do the orange juice glaze? thanks!Read more