Buttermilk Gingerbread Recipes

OLD-FASHIONED GINGERBREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray 13x9-inch baking dish with baking spray. Combine flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda and salt in medium bowl; set aside.
• Combine sugar, oil and eggs in large bowl; mix well. Gradually pour molasses into sugar mixture; stir until well blended. Alternately add flour mixture and buttermilk to sugar mixture; beat well. Spread batter evenly in prepared baking dish.
• Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before serving. Cut into 12 pieces. Dust with confectioners' sugar and garnish with Reddi-wip.

HOLIDAY GINGERBREAD SCONES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C) and place a rack in the center of the oven. Lightly spray a baking pan with cooking spray.
• Combine egg and cream for glaze in a small bowl and set aside.
• Combine flour, oats, sugar, baking powder, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, and cloves in a large bowl. Cut the butter into small pieces with a pastry blender, 2 knives, or your fingertips; rub into the flour mixture until it resembles coarse oatmeal. Add cherries and currants.
• Combine buttermilk and molasses in a measuring cup. Stir into flour mixture with a wooden spoon until moist clumps form. Gather dough together and transfer to a lightly floured surface.
• Knead dough gently until it forms a ball. Shape into a 7-inch circle and cut into 8 triangles with a sharp knife. Place on the prepared baking pan and brush with glaze.
• Bake in the preheated oven until firm, golden brown, and a toothpick inserted into the center of a scone comes out clean, about 14 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack before serving.

BUTTERMILK GINGERBREAD

Steps:

• Combine first 5 ingredients in a bowl.
• Cream butter and sugar together. Stir in egg.
• Add molasses and buttermilk and mix until well combined.
• Add dry ingredients to the molasses mixture and stir until just smooth.
• Bake in a greased 8x8 pan for 25 minutes at 325°F Bread is done when tester comes out clean or with a little bit of crumb.

MOLASSES-AND-BUTTERMILK GINGERBREAD SQUARES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F. Spray 8x8x2-inch metal baking pan with nonstick vegetable oil spray. Sift all purpose flour, ground cinnamon, ground ginger, baking soda and ground nutmeg into medium bowl. Combine molasses, 1/2 cup sugar, melted butter, buttermilk and large egg in large bowl; whisk to blend. Whisk in dry ingredients. Pour batter into prepared baking pan.
• Bake cake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Cool cake completely in pan on rack. Sift powdered sugar over cake. Cut cake into 16 squares.

GINGERBREAD CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and then prepare an 8×8 or 9×9 cake pan, either size will work. Grease the bottom and sides with butter and cut a slice of parchment paper to lay inside.
• Using an electric mixer, beat brown sugar and eggs for at least 3 minutes.
• Add in buttermilk, molasses, melted butter and vanilla extract.
• Beat for 5 minutes until all of the ingredients are combined and have a fluffier texture. Scape down the bottom and sides of the bowl.
• Combine the flour, ground spices, baking soda and baking powder and salt in a medium bowl.
• With the mixer on low, slowly add in the dry ingredients.
• Scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl and using a spatula, fold it all together.
• Pour into the prepared baking dish and bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 30 minutes.
• Let the cake cool and then add a fluffy layer of gingerbread frosting over the top OR leave it without and it's just as good!