chocolate gingerbread recipe.
Growing up, I don’t remember eating many baked goods with ginger. We had plenty of traditional Norwegian goodies like rosettes, krumkake, sun buckles, my Grandma’s special mint chocolate chip cookies and always lefse. I especially loved the rosettes (which one day I hope I learn to make, along with the lefse). For now, I am creating some of my own – which includes the ginger.
chocolate gingerbread bars
from December ’08 “Everyday Food”
These bars are almost brownie like – moist and delicious!
-4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, melted, plus more for the pan
-1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, plus more for the pan
-3/4 cup all-purpose flour
-1 teaspoon ground ginger
-1 teaspoon pumpkin-pie spice
-1/2 teaspoon baking soda
-1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
-1/4 cup unsulfured molasses
-1 large egg
-1/4 cup sour cream
-1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
-powdered sugar, for dusting (optional)
1. Preheat the oven to 350 F. Butter an 8 inch square baking pan. Line the bottom with a strip of parchment paper, leaving overhang on two sides; butter paper. Dust paper and sides of pan with cocoa; set aside. In a medium bowl, whisk together cocoa, flour, ginger, pumpkin pie spice, and baking soda.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together butter, brown sugar, molasses, egg and sour cream until smooth. Add the flour mixture. Stir just until moistened and add the chocolate chips. Do not over-mix! Transfer batter to prepared pan; smooth the top.
3. Bake 30-35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in center of bars comes out clean. Transfer to a wire rack, let cool completely. Dust with powdered sugar.
To store, keep in airtight container for up to 3 days (at room temperature).
Beth of The Linen Cat
Yum, this sounds delicious! Thanks for your kind words over at the linen cat, we are all on the mend and looking forward to a slower pace for the festive season. I hope all is well with you and yours and the run up to Christmas is proving fun and ideally a little relaxing. Bethx
Regina
I'm glad you are all improving! It has not proven to be relaxing, but it has been a bit fun. All the Christmas programs and extra visits with family always make for good times. 🙂
Beth of The Linen Cat
I love ginger, we have quite a few traditional recipes from my home county of Yorkshire that contain ginger (like Parkin and Ginger Biscuits) so your cake sounds yummy. Something weird is happening as all of a sudden a few of your posts have appeared in my Feedly feed, and I can see from the dates they are from some time ago….wonder where they were hiding?! Bethx