For the next year I am doing a project - a different cake each week for an entire year - following the book All Cakes Considered: A Year's Worth of Weekly Recipes Tested, Tasted and Approved by the Staff of NPR's All Things Considered. You can read about the start of my project here and look at each week to date here.

The recipe: Gingerbread



I had to post a before and after photograph of this one. I wanted to make sure it was moist so I was checking it regularly but by the time the middle of the cake was set, the edges seemed a little well done. Nothing a bread knife won't fix. :)

I trimmed off the edges and sprinkled a little icing sugar over the top to make it pretty. I hadn't been grocery shopping yet but if I'd had some fresh berries I would have piled a small handful of them in the middle to hide my "testing to see if it's done" marks.

Recipients: Another of Jim's cousins who came by to see the kids.

Verdict: Pretty good. I didn't play with the sugar on this one since there's only half a cup but it was just right as is. The only gingerbread I've ever made is gingerbread cookies at Christmas time and it did feel a little odd to be eating gingerbread in the middle of summer but the fact that it was a rainy day helped.

Up next: ATF Gingerbread. This one looks weird but good - dark beer and crystallized ginger. And it's frosted - I'm a sucker for cream cheese frosting.