Ginger Cake With Rum Sauce Taste Of Nova Scotia Recipes

GREAT-GRANDMA'S GINGER CAKE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Add molasses and egg; mix well. Combine the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, salt and cloves. Add to the creamed mixture alternately with water, beating well after each addition., Pour into a greased 9-in. square baking pan. Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Garnish with whipped topping.

GINGER RUM CAKE

Steps:

• Adjust rack one-third up from bottom of oven. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9 x 3?-inch tube pan (or two loaf pans). Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt and set aside. Combine milk and rum and set aside. In large bowl of electric mixer cream the butter. Add the sugar and beat for 2 to 3 minutes. Beat in the eggs individually, scraping the bowl as necessary with a rubber spatula to keep mixture smooth. On lowest speed alternately add the dry ingredients in three additions and the milk/rum in two additions, scraping the bowl with the rubber spatula as necessary and beating only until smooth after each addition. Stir in grated ginger. Turn the batter into prepared pan(s). Level top by gently shaking pan back and forth.
• Bake for about 65 minutes until a cake tester comes out dry. Let cake stand in the pan for about 3 minutes and then cover with a rack and invert. Remove pan, leaving the cake upside down. Place over a large piece of aluminum foil or wax paper and prepare glaze.
• GLAZE: 1/3 cup rum, 1-2 tablespoons sugar
• Stir the rum and sugar together and brush all over the hot cake until absorbed. If using loaf pans, turn the cakes over and brush the tops too.
• Do not cut cake for at least several hours.

GINGER CAKE WITH RUM SAUCE ( TASTE OF NOVA SCOTIA)

Steps:

• Butter & flour a 10 inch Bundt pan, set aside
• In a bowl, whisk together dry ingredients except sugar and ginger root.
• In separate bowl, whisk together sugar, oil , molasses, eggs, water and ginger root.
• Stir flour mixture into molasses mixture one third at a time.
• Stir in crystalized ginger & pour into Bundt pan.
• Baked in 350 degree oven for about 1 hour or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool on rack for 30 min.
• Remove from pan; let cool completely on rack. Serve with Rum Sauce.
• In small saucepan bring the brown sugar, whipping cream and butter to a boil and keep it at a boil for 3 minutes.
• Remove from heat and stir in Rum & vanilla. Cool slightly and pour over warm cake.