Three Ginger Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cloves
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup molasses
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 tablespoons fresh ginger, minced
• 1/2 cup crystallized ginger, finely chopped
• 1 tablespoon icing sugar

Recipe

• 1 grease and flour a 10" bundt pan.
• 2 in a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, cloves, ground ginger and salt; set aside.
• 3 in a separate large bowl, whisk together the sugar, oil, molasses, eggs, water and fresh ginger.
• 4 add the dry ingredients, a third at a time, stirring each addition with a wooden spoon just until the dry and wet ingredients are mixed.
• 5 sprinkle the crystallized ginger over the surface.
• 6 stir just enough to mix into the batter.
• 7 scrape into the prepared pan, smoothing the top.
• 8 bake in the centre of a 350 degree f oven until a cake tester inserted into the centre comes out clean, about 1 hour.
• 9 let cool on a rack for 30 minutes.
• 10 loosen the cake at the top edges of the pan.
• 11 place a metal rack over the pan and turn the cake and rack over.
• 12 lift the pan off and let the cake cool completely.
• 13 dust the cooled cake with icing sugar.