Gingerbread with Vanilla Glaze
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Gingerbread with Vanilla Icing ~ Yummy Gingerbread topped with a Vanilla Glaze! Comforting, easy, and homemade!
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of PAM Cooking Spray.
So I tend to have an itsy, bitsy problem when I’m cooking and baking. Sometimes this problem isn’t so itsy, bitsy. In fact it can lead to huge disasters every once in a while. This problem stems way, way back to the days of my first moments in the kitchen at Mom and Dad’s.
Wondering what my problem is? It’s called forgetting steps to the recipe. It can be detrimental. In fact, back at Mom and Dad’s my mother used to make me read the recipe twice to make sure I did everything correctly. It was a known problem of mine.
Then I went to college, and one would think things would get better considering I was going to school for Hotel/Restaurant Management and I had several cooking classes but this did not cure my problem either. In fact I remember making homemade marshmallows in one of my classes and the professor actually made us quit, clean up and sit back down and lecture us because we did not read the entire recipe before starting and this lead to several mistakes.
How do I try to concur this known problem? I try to set out all my ingredients for a recipe before I start making the recipe and but back the ingredients as I use them. This way I know that a clean counter when I’m done preparing a recipe means I’ve prepared it correctly. This works most of the time.
In fact, I’ve been known to pour the batter into a pan and have to clean the pan out and spray it with Pam cooking spray, then pour the batter back in. Sometimes…well I forget completely then I’m in a really sticky mess! It’s a terrible thing when I forget my Pam cooking spray. I always rest assured that my recipes will “pop” right out of a pan when I use Pam cooking spray, when I don’t use it then I’m usually taking a chisel to may pan. Not a pretty site!
For all of your holiday baking this season make sure to grab your Pam cooking spray and rest assured that your recipe will turn out the first time!
Be sure to try White Chocolate Dipped Gingersnaps ~ Soft, Chewy Gingersnaps Dipped in Sweet White Chocolate!
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Gingerbread with Vanilla Glaze
Ingredients
- 2 1/3 c. all-purpose flour
- 1/3 c. sugar
- 1 c. molasses
- 3/4 c. hot water
- 1/2 c. shortening
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp cinnamon
Vanilla Icing
- 1/2 c. powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1-2 Tbsp milk
Instructions
- Using your stand mixer combine all ingredients on low speed for 30 seconds. Scrape bowl occasionally. Beat on medium speed for 3 minutes.
- Pour batter into a 9″ pie plate prepared with Pam non-stick cooking spray.
- Baked at 325 degrees 50 minutes, until toothpick inserted in the center tests clean. Cool.
- When gingerbread is cooled mix together ingredient for icing. Drizzle over gingerbread and let set up.
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Debbie says
My favorite holiday dessert is frozen cranberry dessert with whipping cream, walnuts, miniature marshmellows, & crushed pineapple.
Annette Herbst says
My Grandmas date “fruitcake” which is really a bread
Jenny Huntley says
My favorite are spritz cookies.
Cary Chambers says
My favorite sweet treat is my mom’s oatmeal pie. When we were kids our was our job to pick & clean pecans & we were horrible about leaving little pieces of shell, so when Mom made pecan pie, I usually got shell. Oatmeal pie has the same type of flavor & filling & no shell!
Shari says
I always look forward to my mom’s frosted Christmas cookies. They are the BEST.
Kathy Bahr says
I like my simple “festive butter cookies”. They are similar to spritz, only you roll them and flatten with a fork. You can get soooo many on a baking sheet at a time! So “pop-able” one bite size!!
Laura Ball says
The link to the Red Velvet Cookies takes me to the White Chocolate Molasses Cookies. Help!!
Julie Evink says
Fixed! Try it again. So sorry!
Shelly says
I love Christmas sugar cookies!
Christy Spurlock says
I love Collins Street Bakery Fruit Cake
Nancy P.@thebittersideofsweet says
Favorite Christmas treat is my grandmothers cream cookies. The kids have so much fun making them and decorating them every year! This gingerbread looks amazing!!
Tanya Fell says
My favorite treat has to be sugar cookies but the best part is decorating them with my kids and family!!
libby says
My favorite treat is decorated sugar cookies
Malissa W says
Toll house chocolate chip cookies and my mom’s walnut brownies. Amazing. I can’t wait! Thanks for the giveaway!
Maggie Wallace says
My favorite christmas treat are my grandmother’s class sugar cookies and fruitcake!
Alexis K. says
My favorite christmas treats are the spritz cookies I bake with my grandmother every year with her vintage cookie press. I may be 30 now, but no matter how old I am, I’m never too old to bake cookies with grandma!