gingerbread cake – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen Making Every Day an Occasion... Simply Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:11:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-peonies-32x32.jpg gingerbread cake – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen 32 32 Gingerbread Cake http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/holiday-dessert-recipe-gingerbread-cake/ http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/holiday-dessert-recipe-gingerbread-cake/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:44:17 +0000 http://ingoodtasteblog.net/?p=159 The first time I ever made gingerbread cookies from scratch was during my senior year of college. The day after finals, before leaving for semester break, I gathered a handful of recipes, jotted them onto cards and headed to my friend Alison’s apartment for an afternoon of baking. It’s a day I remember clearly, but not at all. I can vividly see the plastic, yuletide-pattern plastic Christmas cookie bins that we’d picked up from Wal*Mart to share the goods with our friends. I remember the double date we went on later that night with her boyfriend and a guy I’d been dating. I remember what I had to drink at dinner and what I was wearing. I remember that it was snowing and I was afraid to drive, even around the corner to the pub where we ate. Yet, I only remember one of the cookies we baked. Naturally, one of those batches of cookies – and the only one that comes to mind when I think of the holiday-spirited day back in college – was gingersnaps. That cookie kicked off a love of gingerbread that has waxed and waned since then. While there’s nothing like a good molasses cookie dunked in […]

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