Gingerbread Cake With Chocolate Ganache

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1/2 cup shortening or 1/2 cup butter
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 cup molasses
• 1 cup very hot water
• 2 1/3 cups flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons orange zest (optional)
• 1/4 cup orange marmalade or 1/4 cup apricot jam
• dark chocolate ganache (i recommend jeni's chocolate ganache)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 180c/350º f.
• 2 grease and flour 9-inch/20cm square pan.
• 3 in a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar together.
• 4 add egg. add the water to the molasses, stir to combine, then stir molasses water into the butter mixture.
• 5 stir dry ingredients together, add to liquid mixture, and combine until smooth. pour into prepared pan, bake 45 minutes, or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
• 6 to decorate-.
• 7 once cool, split the cake in half horizontally.
• 8 sit the two halves, cut side up, on the counter, and spread one half with jam and the other half with chocolate ganache.
• 9 sandwich the two halves back together.
• 10 ice the entire cake with chocolate ganache, decorate and serve!