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There just isn't enough icing!
Why wouldn't you just use the pound of butter instead of risking falling short with the 4 layers?!?!?! Now I have to wait until morning make some more icing so that I'm not embarrassed by the look of this thing. Having a little left for tasting would not be the end of the world! Extremely delicious cake though. Lesson learned, next time I make more in the first place. Heavy Sigh 🙁
This iS ☆☆☆☆☆ STELLAR, Might Lower Butters To 2**Cubes, & Little Less Frost'n@Each Layer, it's Perfection.
Such great chemistry between these two awesome chefs! I recently discovered the gift of America's Test Kitchen and Cooks Country and I'm hooked.
Darn it! Coffee. I don't like the flavour of coffee at all, and I'm not going to use it. Is water OK, I wonder?
I made this cake over the weekend and it's a BEAST!!! I started around 11:30 am and finished frosting it around 4pm. I followed the directions exactly, but I just didn't have enough batter to make 4 cakes. I made 2 layers with the 1 1/3 cup batter and then made a thicker 3rd layer and used that for the bottom. And the timings are waaaay off. It takes a lot longer for the pudding to thicken on the stove and a lot longer for cooking (my cake was raw in the middle and collapsed when I poked the toothpick in the middle). But all things considered: The cake is awesome!!! The icing? Meh. I've never made Ermine icing before so it may have been something I did, but it's just toooooo buttery….like oily. Now I know why people started switching over to cream cheese icing.
Great job 😄
I’m going to make this for Christmas. Thank you very much.
This is not a ginger cake, it’s just a chocolate coffee flavored cake with spices added. Most of the ginger is totally overpowered by the strong coffee and chocolate flavors.
Made this cake! 🎂
Insanely delicious😋
The cake was moist and fluffy, with great balance of flavors- peppery, sweet, tangy, little bit of spice… yumminess.
It takes great length to make this cake but worth it.
It took me 18 minutes to bake the cake in the oven instead of 12 minutes.
Goes well with black coffee ☕ or Cold Beer🍺.
I get a kick out of these ladies. I love when the test kitchen bakes.
Can this be baked in a bundt pan
What could be a substitute for brewed coffee?
I made this. It is really good but not very sweet at all. The frosting is a dream, 10 out of ten would recommend! I think one could easily modify it to cream cheese frosting by subbing half the butter w/ cream cheese, which would be perfect for carrot or red velvet cake.
I made a few changes
added 1/2 c splenda to the cake batter. (but also used dark roast coffee, and special dark cocoa powder, because that's what I had on hand. And it was REALLY dark).
added a soak of sweetened cream, ground cloves and cinnamon, and a splash of Fireball whiskey.
added chopped candied ginger between each layer as well as on top.
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Lord have mercy!! Y’all snatched my wig. 🤪
This is a beautiful cake. I will make it soon. I have a couple of queries, how do you ensure flat even layers, any tips would be helpful. Is there a substitute for molasses. Thanks.
Looks super! Hint: a little smear of frosting under the cardboard with keep it from sliding around.
It has been so hard to find confectioners sugar lately. I came across this recipe and thought it was perfect for the ingredients I had on hand. I made it vegan by using Earth balance butter and unsweetened almond milk. It came out perfectly. Creamy and whippy and luscious!
Yikes! The recipe page is BLOCKED! Bummer..,
Morticia Addams' Ginger Cake
I just love their cakes and biscuits!
Where the heck was this recipe when we needed it during Christmas?! 🤣😂
This sounds amazing! I think I'd miss some of the traditional gingerbread flavorings like clove, anise & cardamom, but one could always adjust the spices to one's liking or use a traditional Lebkuchengewürz.
Sugar sugar sugar. Wow
I see gingerbread, I click! While I am an anything dark chocolate fan, I've always loved gingerbread and molasses cookies. They're not as popular, but oh so good.
I've made this a LOT, though in a square pan or loaf pan with just powdered sugar on top. ATK has another gingerbread recipe that's also good, but this one if definitely my favorite because of how ~dark~ it is.
The last 4 generations of my Texas based family has used ermine frosting for Red Velvet Cakes. Cream Cheese frosting is just wrong (in my humble opinion, of course).
Looks good! Love you gals to death!
That cake looks divine. I wonder if I could make it into a ginger peach upside cake?
That cake does look so delicious and have me wishing to be a baker where I could make one like it and see how long it would take me to devour the whole thing.
I like how she ‘gingerly’ mixed the wet and dry ingredients (I just could not resist…)!
Thumbs up for the way the cake looks 👀👍🏽
My grade school cafeteria served a spiced gingerbread like this. No frosting though, just powdered sugar. Now I'm all nostalgic and I've just got to try this cake out.
Yum…
I only have 9 inch cake pans. Can I still do this recipe? If so, how?
I love ginger anything. Mmm.
I’m not sure if I missed it or not but does anyone know how big that cake pan was?
Oh my looks wonderful!
How wonderful! Have always adored gingerbread – something so special and delightfully “homey” about it. And once I entered a “Canton Ginger Liquor” contest and won $500 for my second place ginger cake lol. But this pushes the envelope way beyond what I did using such supportive flavors. Can’t wait to make this. Decided I would make 4 cakes as shown rather than just 2 and then slice them. WTG as usual ATK.
Youre teasing me with this reupload while avoidimg makimg Pfeffernusse cookies.
The dark side is so much more fun indeed! This looks absolutely delicious! 😊
I would loooove for you guys to make a Chocolate Shadow Cake. I've never tried it before but my husband had told me he bought one once (I think it was at Publix Supermarket) and he loved it! I want to bake one for his birthday but the recipes I've found online are not complete. They ask for "3 chocolate round cakes" when what I'm looking for is one made from scratch and there is no better than you guys to make it happen! Love this channel! Thank you : )
Love these recipes, thanks
If you're looking at this frosting and thinking "that sounds like too much work", I promise you this is literally the greatest frosting and it is well worth the effort. If you get it right you will not regret making it. You will want to sit with the bowl and eat it straight with a spoon. You will be distraut when it is gone. This frosting will both change and ruin your life. It is the only frosting you will want. Other frostings will not compare. This is the only frosting I will make and sometimes I make it even without making cake.
Next time I go to the store, i will buy a nice cake, then eat it with coffee
Perfection! I would love to make this.
Looks delicious. Can I just use powdered ginger throughout. I don’t have fresh?. Also chocolate frosting? Yum!
Yum! Sounds delicious!
But what about social distancing?!