Gingerbread with Cinnamon Whipped Cream and Bananas
Yield: 15servings
Prep Time: 20 minutesmins
Cook Time: 35 minutesmins
Total Time: 55 minutesmins
Ingredients
Gingerbread:
½cup(106g)sugar
½cup(113g)butter, softened
1largeegg
1cupmolasses
½teaspoonsalt
2 ½cups(355g)flour
1 ½teaspoonsbaking soda
1teaspooncinnamon
1teaspoonground ginger
½teaspoonground cloves
1cupvery hot water
Cinnamon Whipped Cream:
2cupsheavy whipping cream
1teaspooncinnamon
¼cup(29g)powdered sugar
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9X13-inch baking pan and set aside.
In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar until well blended. Add the egg and molasses and blend again. Sift the dry ingredients together in a mesh strainer directly into the molasses/butter/sugar mixture and mix. Add the hot water and beat until the batter is smooth. It will be fairly thin.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 32-35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Don’t overbake or the gingerbread will be dry.
Serve the gingerbread warm or cold with cinnamon whipped cream and sliced bananas, if desired.
For the cinnamon whipped cream: In a medium bowl, begin beating the whipped cream. After it starts to just slightly thicken, add the sugar and cinnamon and beat until medium-stiff peaks form.