I love Christmas and everything around that magic time. Gingerbread recipes are part of my Christmas since years. This time I decided to prepare a funny version of traditional gingerbread cake. Just try and you will love it as much as I do.
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- 250 - 300 g powder sugar
- 250 g butter
- 3 eggs
- 20 g vanilla sugar
- 1 Tbsp rum essence
- 200 g honey
- 500 g all purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 2 - 3 Tbsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground nutmeg
- 2 Tbsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp ground cloves
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 500 - 600 ml warm milk
- 100 ml dark rum
Method:
1. Pre-heat the oven to 180 C.
2. In a large mixing bowl mix together butter and sugar. Add beaten eggs. Mix all together and add honey. Keep mixing.
3. Add into a creamy mixture vanilla sugar, rum essence and rum. Mix again.
4. At the end, add flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and ground cloves. Mix well. At the end add warm milk and make sure you blend well the creamy mixture. The mixture cannot be too dense because then it will be a real challenge to fill the baking moulds.
5. Fill the baking moulds to approx. 2/3 full. Do not overfill. Am using silicon moulds for that as I think they are best. Do not forget to springle some oil over the moulds so your cupcakes won't stick when baked.
6. Place the moulds into the center of a pre-heated oven and bake for approx. 30 minutes.
7. Your cakes are ready when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
8. Cool 5 minutes then remove your cakes from the moulds and place on wire racks to cool completely.
ENJOY!!!
