Name: Fruit and Honey Gingerbread
Ingredients: 4 cups all-purpose flour; 2 teaspoons baking soda; 2 teaspoons ground ginger; 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon; 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg; 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1/2 cup sugar; 1/2 cup dark brown sugar; 3 large eggs; 1 cup honey; 1 cup dairy sour cream or thick, Greek style plain yogurt; 1 cup raisins; 1/3 cup chopped crystallized ginger

1

Lightly grease a 9”x13” cake pan.

2

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

3

Sift the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and salt together into a bowl and set aside.

4

Beat the sugar, brown sugar and eggs together with a hand mixer or electric mixer set on medium speed for or until the mixture is smooth and creamy.

5

Add the honey and blend it in thoroughly, scraping down the sides of the bowl occasionally with a rubber spatula.

6

Blend in the sour cream.

7

Add the dry ingredients and beat for or until the batter is well blended.

8

Stir in the raisins and crystallized ginger.

9

Pour the batter into the prepared pan.

10

Bake for or until a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean.

11

Let cool in the pan for , then invert onto a cake rack to cool completely.

12

Makes one sheet cake, 9”x13”

Fruit and Honey Gingerbread

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