Easy Apple Gingerbread Cake
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Easy Apple Gingerbread Cake is quick to make and always moist and delicious. Bake it as a snack cake or dress it up with a glaze.
- Author: Crosby's Molasses
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 10 serving(s) 1x
- Category: Cakes
- 1/2 cup oil (vegetable, olive, grapeseed, canola…)
- 2 cups all-purpose flour, spooned in
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 tsp. ginger
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. cloves
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 cup Crosby’s Fancy Molasses
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg, room temperature
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- ½ cup boiling water
- 4 tart apples peeled and cut into 1/2 inch chunks
- In a medium bowl whisk the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and salt.
- In another bowl whisk oil, molasses, brown sugar, egg, vanilla and ½ cup boiling water.
- Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture and stir just until combined.
- Gently fold in the apples.
- Scrape batter into a greased and floured 9” round cake pan.
- Bake at 350 F for 45 minutes (or until a tester comes out clean)