Honey, let me tell you about one of my favorite recipes — Apple Cider Gingerbread Recipe is something I’ve been making for years and it never disappoints! This is the kind of dish that fills the whole kitchen with the most wonderful aroma and has everyone asking when dinner will be ready.
Made with simple, wholesome ingredients like all-purpose flour, brown sugar, ginger, this recipe comes together without any fuss. That’s the way Gran likes it — good food that doesn’t keep you in the kitchen all day.
Whether you’re making this for a weeknight dinner or bringing it to a gathering, I promise it will disappear fast. Don’t forget to scroll down and let me know how it turned out in the comments!
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Apple Cider Gingerbread Recipe
Ingredients
- 1.5 cup All-Purpose Flour
- 0.5 cup Brown Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Ginger
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 0.5 cup Apples
- 0.33333333333333 cup Olive Oil
- 0.25 cup Molasses
- 1 tablespoon Apple Cider Vinegar
- 1 tablespoon Ginger
- 1 cup Sour Cream
- 2 teaspoon Lemon Juice
- 0.25 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Into an 8-inch round cake pan, sift together the flour, brown sugar, grnd ginger, and baking soda.
- Make a well in the center of the flour mix and add in the apple cider, oil, molasses, vinegar, and crystallized ginger.
- With a fork, stir just till the batter is smooth.
- Bake for 30 to 35 min, till a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Transfer the cake to a wire rack.
- Meanwhile, in a small bowl, stir together the lowfat sour cream, lemon zest, lemon juice, and vanilla.
- Chill.
- Cut the hot gingerbread into wedges and serve accompanied by the lemon sauce.
- This recipe yields 8 servings.
- Comments: Gingerbread may be the world’s best cool-weather dessert, and baking doesn’t get simpler than this.
- The cake is mixed and baked in the same pan, so your kids will be perfect helpers here.
- Keep in mind which gingerbread tastes best when it’s fresh from the oven – put it in to bake when you sit down to dinner and you will have fragrant, moist gingerbread just in time for dessert.
