- 1/ 2 cup White Sugar
- 1/ 2 cup Butter
- 1 Egg
- 1 cup Molasses
- 2 1/ 2 cups All-Purpose Flour
- 1 1/ 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/ 2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/ 2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 cup hot water
Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease and flour pan. In a large bowl, cream together sugar and butter. Beat in egg; stir in molasses; set aside. In small bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Blend into the butter mixture. Stir in the hot water. Divide evenly among wells in pan, filling each well only 3/4 full. Tap gently on counter-top to remove air bubbles. Bake 23-28 minutes until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan. Invert onto cooling rack and cool completely. Decorate as desired. If there is extra batter, fill pan with remaining batter and repeat. Makes about 6 cakes.
Posted by T Lee
Good recipe. Leave out the ginger and cloves and switch molasses for honey and you get cake that tastes like graham crackers. Perfect for decorating. Reduce baking soda to 1tsp to improve definition on gingerbread features.
Posted by Renee Hance
The recipe that comes with the pan does not say to fill the wells only 3/4 of the way full. Don’t over fill the wells in the pan! I think I could have made about 11 or 12 cakelets with this recipe, but the recipe that came with the product says to divide the batter evenly among the wells in the pan. The gingerbread was delicious with buttercream frosting flavored with almond extract.
Posted by Nordic Ware
Hi! The recipe online does state to fill each cavity 3/4 full. We will double check the recipe on packaging so thank you for bringing that to our attention. Please contact info@nordicware.com if you have any further questions or concerns!
Posted by Sheryll
What a disappointing recipe! How can anything with a cup of molasses and 1 T of cinnamon be this bland? It mixed nicely and came out of the pan well but there have to be more flavorful recipes out there.
Posted by MiMi
Delicious – gingerbread like I grew up with – can’t find that flavor in a mix anymore!
Posted by Sunita
The cakelets taste a lot like molasses. If you like that kind of flavor, then you’ll like this recipe.
Posted by Anna
I followed this recipe for my gingerbread children Cakelets pan and it turned out phenomenal! I ended up having enough to make four cupcakes too. Spicy and full of holiday spirit!