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Related: About this forumPeach Gingerbread Molasses Upside-down Cake Recipe (video)
It's peach season! This is a delicious and simple cake recipe (with some old-fashioned techniques) that comes out really delicious. With all of that brown sugar and molasses, it seems like it would be a bit dense, but because it has both baking powder and baking soda, it comes out quite fluffy, and very moist as well. It has the flavour and aroma of a really excellent spice cake because of all of that ginger. We were tempted to finely dice up some of the crystallized ginger we have on had and really triple down on the ginger, but we left it to just the fresh grated and the dried microplaned.
You could replace the peaches with any number of different fruits. Pineapple would work. You could also use any number of different stonefruits like nectarines or plums. You may wish to add a tbsp of bourbon into the glaze, and it would work extremely well. If you wanted to replace the peaches with bananas, maybe switch the booze to rum! You could even use apples for this.
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sazemisery
(2,608 posts)It turned out perfect. The gingerbread is the best ever. I'll be repeating this many times over.
Saviolo
(3,280 posts)Works really well, tasty, smells amazing, delicious, and versatile. We did it with peaches, but you could use so many different fruits.
Kali
(55,007 posts)but watching the video and thinking about it, now I want some! of course a neutral yellow cake with peaches sounds good too. somewhere I have a recipe for a chocolate upside down cake with apricots for the fruit.
Saviolo
(3,280 posts)There's a lot of ways it seems like this cake shouldn't work, but it really does!