Warm Gingerbread With Lemon Glaze
- 1/3 cup butter, cut into small pieces
- 2/3 cup hot water
- 1 cup dark molasses
- 1 large egg
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- cooking spray
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 6 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 cup frozen reduced-fat whipped topping, thawed
- ground cinnamon
- lemon slice
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Combine butter and hot water in a large bowl, stirring with a whisk until the butter melts. Add molasses and egg, and stir with a whisk until blended. Lightly soon flour into dry measuring cups, and level with a knife. Combine flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, salt, and cloves. Add flour mixture to the molasses mixture, stirring just until moist.
- Spoon batter into a 9 inch cake pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool gingerbread in the pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes.
- Combine sugar and lemon juice, stirring until well blended. Pierce top of gingerbread liberally with a wooden skewer. Pour glaze over gingerbread. Cool completely.
- Tope each serving with the whipped topping. Sprinkle gingerbread with cinnamon and garnish if desired with lemon slices.
butter, water, dark molasses, egg, allpurpose, baking soda, ground ginger, ground cinnamon, salt, ground cloves, cooking spray, powdered sugar, lemon juice, frozen reducedfat whipped topping, ground cinnamon, lemon slice
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/warm-gingerbread-with-lemon-glaze-143485 (may not work)