Easy Gingerbread Cake Recipe {Small 9" Square Christmas Spice Cake} (2024)

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What is the difference between spice cake and gingerbread cake? ›

Cloves and molasses are what really set the gingerbread flavor apart from pumpkin spice and give this cake a more wintry, true-gingerbread flavor than my spice cake or carrot cake.

Betty Crocker, Gingerbread Cake & Cookie Mix, 14.5-Ounce Box (Pack of 4) by Betty Crocker.

The ratio of wet to dry ingredients determines a cake's moisture level. If there's simply too much flour and not enough butter, a cake will taste dry. On the other hand, if there's too much milk and not enough flour, a cake will taste too wet.

Mix the flour, sugar, ginger and bicarbonate of soda together in a bowl. Using your fingers, rub the margarine in until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add the beaten egg, syrup and hot water and mix well with a wooden spoon until combined.

Combine cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves thoroughly in a small mixing bowl. Use as a 1:1 substitute for 1 tsp of allspice.

Our winner is a familiar brand in baking - Betty Crocker ($3.59 for 17.5 ounces at Safeway).

As a professional baker, I too was impressed with the crumb on both the Pillsbury and Betty Crocker cakes, but Betty Crocker has a more even texture, better flavor, and is more moist.

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Can I use both butter and oil in cake? ›

A blend of these two ingredients gives the cake the best possible flavor and texture. Butter provides flavor while oil adds moisture and keeps it from being too dry. A cake made with all oil would be moist but lacking in flavor, and an all-butter cake may have a more buttery taste, but would be more dry.

Whatever you want to call it, this cake involves chocolate and all kinds of other sweet indulgences that may help explain its name (with apologies, perhaps, to the actor Robert Redford). This is a popular, irresistible chocolate cake dessert with loads of chocolate, caramel topping, candy bars, and whipped topping.

Swedish Princess Cake (Prinsesstårta) is a classic Scandinavian torte with layers of sponge cake, raspberry jam, vanilla custard, and whipped cream. It is traditionally dome-shaped and covered with a layer of sweet marzipan tinted green. Princess Cake has been on my baking bucket list for ages.

Friends and family dig a pit that later will be covered and set ablaze to bake the alkaan, a ceremonial corn cake. There are many recipes for the cake, but the primary ingredients of this one were ground corn, sugar and raisins. (

What's The Difference Between Pumpkin Pie Spice And Gingerbread Spice? Both actually include most, if not all, of these same ingredients, though in different amounts. Pumpkin pie spice is heavy on cinnamon, while gingerbread spice has a balance of cinnamon, allspice, and ginger.

Pumpkin spice is pumpkin puree's side kick in this recipe to take classic gingerbread cookies to the next level and pack a subtle but perfect amount of pumpkin spice punch. Pumpkin pie spice consists of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves and allspice.

Pumpkin pie spice is heavy on cinnamon, whereas gingerbread spice has a balance of cinnamon, allspice, and ginger. It really does add a different and unique flavor.

Made with a combination of cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and nutmeg, this spice cake recipe is a rich and flavorful dessert you won't be able to get enough of. This cake is so rich, soft, and moist thanks to the combination of oil, applesauce, and buttermilk, and it'll melt in your mouth.