Spicy Gingerbread Cake

Vegan pastries can be equally as exquisite to their non-vegan counterparts. In fact, vegan pastry products force bakers to use more dynamic ingredients, like the various natural sugars, resulting in a more exciting range of flavors. To a pastry cook, baking vegan is a challenge to create better, more interesting products than those non-vegan desserts that already exist.

Spicy Gingerbread Cake [Vegan]

Ingredients

• 3 oz fresh ginger, finely grated
• ¼ cup blackstrap molasses
• ¾ cup sugar in the raw
• 1 cup dark corn syrup
• 1 cup peanut oil
• 2 ½ cup all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• ¼ tsp ground cloves
• ¼ tsp black pepper
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 cup water
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 3 tsp egg-replacement

Preparation

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
2. Peel and chop the fresh ginger very fine with a sharp knife
3. In a medium sized bowl, mix molasses, corn syrup, sugar-in-the-raw and peanut oil
4. In a separate bowl, using a whisk comebine flour, cinnamon, cloves, salt and black pepper
5. Bring water to a boil and stir in baking soda.  Add the hot water to the molasses mixture and mix.  Then stir in the freshly grated ginger
6. Whisk the dry ingredients into the sugar mixture.
7. Mix the egg replacer with 3 tbsp of water and add to the batter, mixing until everything is combined.
8. Pour batter into desired cake pans or muffin cups and bake for about twenty minutes, or until the cake springs back to a gentle touch.

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