Spice Cake With Ginger Glaze Food

MOIST, TENDER SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and lightly flour a metal or disposable foil 9-by-13-inch pan. Whisk dry ingredients and spices in a large bowl. Mix milk, eggs and vanilla extract in a 2-cup measuring cup.
• Beat softened butter into dry ingredients, first on low, then medium, until mixture forms pebble-sized pieces. Add about 1/3 of the milk mixture and beat on low until smooth. Add remaining milk mixture in two stages; beat on medium speed until batter is just smooth. Add the sugar; beat until just incorporated, about 30 seconds. Pour batter into cake pan.
• Bake until a cake tester or toothpick inserted into the cake's center comes out clean, about 40 minutes. Set pan on a wire rack; let cool for 5 minutes. Run a knife around the pan perimeter and turn cake onto rack. Let cool.

SPICE BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325°F Spray a 10-cup Bundt pan generously with non-stick baking spray.
• Whisk the flour with ginger, cinnamon, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs well. Whisk in canola oil, then sugar and molasses. Pour the egg mixture into the flour mixture and stir well. Add hot water and stir well.
• Scrape the batter into the prepared pan. Bake 45 minutes or until a cake tester inserted into the centre comes out clean. Let cool in the pan on a rack 10 minutes.
• Flip the cake out onto a rack set over a baking sheet. Let cake cool for another 5 minutes, then poke deep holes all over the cake using a long skewer. Drizzle glaze all over cake, trying to get some into each hole, and brushing the glaze so it covers the entire surface of the cake. Serve warm or let cool completely.
• To make the Lemon Glaze, whisk the icing sugar with the lemon juice until smooth.

APPLE SPICE CAKE WITH BROWN SUGAR GLAZE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Butter a 9" spring form pan.
• Place all cake ingredients into bowl of mixer.
• Beat on lowest speed until apples are in 1/4" chunks and their juice has thinned the batter slightly.
• This takes about 3 minutes.
• Pour batter into prepared pan and smooth the top.
• Bake in the middle of the oven until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean- about 50 minutes.
• Let the cake cool slightly.
• Unmold and poke the top of the cake all over with a meat fork.
• Pour glaze over the warm cake, letting the excess run down the sides.
• Cake can be decorated with more chopped walnuts or pecans.
• To Prepare Glaze: Put all ingredients into small saucepan and bring to a simmer, stirring, over low heat.
• Simmer until the sugar dissolves, about 1 minute.
• Let cool until slightly thickened- about 7- 10 minutes.

SPICE CAKE WITH LEMON GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• For the cake, mix the currants and boiling water and set aside.
• Sift flour, cornstarch, baking soda and powder together.
• Then sift spices with the flour mixture.
• Cream the sugar, corn syrup, vanilla extract, and lemon juice in a large bowl.
• Whisk in about 1/3 of the dry ingredients, then half of the water-currant mixture.
• Then whisk in another third of the dry ingredients and remainder of the water-currants.
• Finally, add the last third of the flour.
• Lightly spray a tube pan (Bundt) with vegetable oil spray, then pour in the batter.
• Bake for 45 to 50 minutes, until a tester comes out clean.
• Cool for 10 minutes in the pan.
• Run a knife around the edges, remove cake from pan and set it on a rack.
• Prick a number of holes in it with a fork or toothpicks.
• Combine the glaze ingredients (yogurt, confectioners sugar, and 2t lemon juice) and mix until well blended.
• Spread some of the glaze evenly on the top, aloowing to drip on the sides.
• Periodically add more glaze as the cake cools and it absorbs the previous glazing's liquid.