Tropical Gingerbread Recipe
Yield: 1 CakeRecipe by luhu.jp
Ingredients:
1/2 cup: Butter,
1/2 cup: Sugar,
2: Eggs,
1 tsp: Soda,
1/2 cup: Molasses,
1 tsp: Ginger,
1 tsp: Cinnamon,
1/4 tsp: Salt,
1 1/2 cup: Wholemeal flour,
1/2 cup: Cold water,
2 cup: Freshly grated or moist-,
Packed coconut,
Directions:
Cream butter and sugar well, add eggs and beat all together. Dissolve
soda in molasses and add to first mixture. Mix and sift remaining dry
ingredients, adding to first mixture alternately with the cold water.
Stir in 1 cup of the coconut. Pour into well-greased pan and bake in
moderate oven at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.
Ice with a frosing made as follows:
Boil 1 c sugar and 1/4 c water without stirring until syrup
forms a long thread when dropped from spoon. Beat 2 egg whites
stiff; pour syrup slowsly over egg whites, stirring constantly. Add
3/4 ts lemon extract. Beat until right consistency to spread.
Sprinkle thickly with remaining coconut.
SOURCE: "Everything you want to know about Molasses", by P.E. Norris
Source from luhu.jp
soda in molasses and add to first mixture. Mix and sift remaining dry
ingredients, adding to first mixture alternately with the cold water.
Stir in 1 cup of the coconut. Pour into well-greased pan and bake in
moderate oven at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.
Ice with a frosing made as follows:
Boil 1 c sugar and 1/4 c water without stirring until syrup
forms a long thread when dropped from spoon. Beat 2 egg whites
stiff; pour syrup slowsly over egg whites, stirring constantly. Add
3/4 ts lemon extract. Beat until right consistency to spread.
Sprinkle thickly with remaining coconut.
SOURCE: "Everything you want to know about Molasses", by P.E. Norris
Source from luhu.jp