In my opinion, ginger works extremely well in sweet treats, ginger crunch and and gingerbread men are up there in my top-twenty treats to bake. This year I have also been baking this ginger bread recipe which has a yummy chocolate icing*. The combination of spices in the cake batter and melted chocolate and whole cream in the icing are decadent. The only change I made was halving the icing recipe as I didn't have time to pipe decorations and I didn't have crystallized ginger. This left more than enough icing on top. My in-laws would disagree, but I think crystallized ginger has a funny texture and flavour, and I wouldn't have used it even if it had managed to sneak itself into our pantry. The cake held its own without.
Mmmmm, I love ginger! Might have to try this one. :)
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