Gingerbread Cake (Whole Wheat)

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This soft gingerbread cake will help invite the holiday season into your home  : ) Baking it in your oven will warm your house and make it smell so good!

And this gingerbread is delicious— my husband loved it even though he knew we used a lot of whole wheat flour to make them!

We got a thumbs up for this gingerbread cake!

Gingerbread Cake (Whole Wheat)

Ingredients:

  • 1 C. Grandma’s molasses
  • 1 C. brown sugar
  • 3/4  C. melted coconut oil
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 C. milk or buttermilk substitute
  • 3 C. whole wheat flour
  • 1 Tbsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1 Tbsp. cinnamon
  • 1 tsp. ground ginger
  • 1 tsp. cloves
  • optional: homemade whipped cream
  • optional: a little bit of ground ginger and ground nutmeg to sprinkle on top 🙂

Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Whisk together the dry ingredients (minus the brown sugar) in a small/medium mixing bowl.
  3. In a large mixing bowl, mix together the wet ingredients and brown sugar.
  4. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients
  5. Pour into a 9×13 inch glass baking dish.
  6. Bake for about 35-40 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

Serve with whipped cream as a dessert or in a bowl with milk for a sweet breakfast.

Here are some other “quick cakes” you might like to try:

Two of my other favorite “quick cakes” are Crumb Cake (or Coffee Cake) and Cocoa Cake. You may want to give them a try too 😉

*This recipe came from my mom, and she said the original recipe came from a cookbook called “Wheat for Man” that my grandma and great-grandma both used.

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