Ginger is a spice that I love to include in my baking during the winter. It’s a warming spice in any recipe that it is used in, not just traditional gingerbreads. Ginger is not always the featured spice in spice-laden cakes, but it is the featured spice in this Double Ginger Cake with …
During the holiday season, the freezers at Trader Joe’s are stocked with more treats than usual, giving you plenty of easy options for holiday entertaining. Trader Joe’s Triple Ginger Cake is a new dessert that is a festive option for a holiday party anytime during the Christmas season.
The dessert consists …
Molasses is a wonderfully rich ingredient that I bake with regularly during the fall, winter and holiday baking seasons. It’s rich, bittersweet flavor is the backbone of many spice cakes, gingersnaps and molasses cookies. These Five Spice Molasses Cookies are not your typically gingerbread cookies, though they do use molasses …
Warm, spicy ginger is often associated with dark, sweet molasses and classified as a flavor meant to be used during the holiday baking season. As delicious as gingerbread is, however, ginger itself is a very versatile spice that can be enjoyed all year round in a wide variety of baked goods. There are …
Hermit cookies have the strangest name of any cookie out there. The unusual name does not have a clear origin story, but the cookies always have a very similar recipe. Hermit cookies, and bar cookies for that matter, are made with molasses and flavored with a generous amount of spices – spices that …
Thick, sticky molasses can be a difficult ingredient to work with because it is so hard to measure. Molasses should be measured by volume in the same type of measuring cup that you might use for measuring water, milk or oil. It’s not that you can’t use a dry measuring cup to measure …
When you think of molasses, you probably think of gingerbread and spice cakes. Molasses is a wonderful sweetener with a rich, bittersweet flavor that is often paired with spices like cinnamon, ginger and cloves. While there is absolutely nothing wrong with doubling down on spices, that isn’t the only way to enjoy …
In the fall and winter, I want cookies that seem to fit in with the season. Sometimes this means gingerbread and eggnog cookies, but other times it simply means I want something hearty with a little bit of spice to it. To me, a “hearty” cookie is one that …
