This gingerbread is rich and dark without being to sweet and the lemon adds the perfect contrast to the spiciness of the cake. Â Best of all, it’s super easy to make and goes great with a cup of tea or coffee.
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Gingerbread Cake with Lemon Icing
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Rich and spicy gingerbread cake with tart lemon icing.
Jenny Dunklee | The Lazy Vegan Baker: Jenny Dunklee
Serves: 12
Ingredients
- ½ cup molasses
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup vegan butter or margarine
- ¾ cup hot water
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¾ teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 tablespoon ground flax seed
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- zest of 1 lemon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 300F. Lightly grease and flour an 8x8 baking pan.
- In a  medium saucepan, heat the molasses, sugar and butter just until all the butter is melted, then remove from heat.
- Add the hot water, mix well and then let cool completely.
- In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, ginger and flax seed.
- Add the molasses mixture to the flour and stir until completely combined.
- Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 35-40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Let cool 10 minutes in pan and then turn out and let cool completely on a wire cooling rack.
- When cake is completely cooled, whisk the powdered sugar, lemon juice and zest together until smooth and spread over cake.
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Oh wow – sounds amazing! I like the idea of the combination of the ginger and lemon – sounds delicious!
I tried following you on Bloglovin’ so you could appear on my feed, but I couldn’t find you. Would you consider adding your blog to it?
Thanks! One of my favorite combinations too – really anything with ginger! I’ve have to look into that bloglovin and will let you know if I add my blog 🙂
ps. Your cake is being featured this Friday at Healthy Vegan Fridays =) I am pinning this delectable cake!
Thank you! That is so awesome. Love HVF – thanks for hosting it!!
Wow, that brought back some memories! My mom used to fix this as a desert (out of a box) 30 odd years ago. I will have to try this.
Oh so glad to bring back happy childhood memories :). I hope this is as good as you remember!
Ginger and lemon? Why have I never thought of that?! Love this idea and flavour combination.
Thanks! One of my absolute favorite flavor combos 🙂
Wow, this looks amazing! The sponge looks so moist I could eat it right now! Visiting you via Healthy Vegan Fridays.
Thanks! That’s actually what happened when I made it – there are no pics of the cake as a whole because I had to make myself stop eating it to take pics haha
Yes, it can be very hard not to eat cake!