Martha Stewart’s Gingerbread Cake Recipe Is the Simple Holiday Dessert We Need

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With cooking-heavy holidays right around the corner, we can all use a festive treat that we can whip up in no time. And while we love a good homemade pumpkin pie, it’s also nice to have something different at our holiday tables. Martha Stewart has us all obsessing over her Gingerbread Snacking Cake Recipe, which only takes 30 minutes to bake and is the perfect, simple dessert that packs a punch with its delicious spiced flavor. I mean come on… who doesn’t love an easy, tasty dessert that will please the masses and bring out some holiday cheer?

Stewart shared the recipe on instagram on Dec 3, writing: “Quick and easy to prep, this gingerbread cake is a single-layer snacking cake that doesn’t need any frosting or decoration and is delicious at any time of the day. Enjoy it with a cup of coffee, for an afternoon pick-me-up, or a special holiday breakfast. It’s moist and fragrant with molasses, ground ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg and will perfume your kitchen as it bakes. Get the recipe at the link in our bio. ????: @brieism.”

We couldn’t agree with Martha more. The recipe really is simple and easy for beginners to make! It has some of our favorite spices in it like nutmeg, cinnamon and ground cloves, and gives that warm gingerbread flavor we love while being waaayy less fussy than rolling and cutting out gingerbread people cookies.

This yummy cake makes a perfect breakfast treat, if we do say so, as well as dessert — and it pairs well with eggnog, as the flavors mirror one another, if you’re going for a festive after-dinner treat.

The recipe first appeared in Martha Stewart Living magazine in 1997, and it’s a classic that has certainly stood the test of time.

Get the full Gingerbread Cake Recipe at Martha Stewart’s website.

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