Spiced Bundt Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 3 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon chinese five spice powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup crystallized ginger, packed
• 6 ounces unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs, at room temperature
• 1 cup dark molasses
• 1 cup hot water
• confectioners' sugar, for dusting

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 grease and flour a 10-cup bundt pan.
• 3 whisk together flour, five spice powder, baking soda, salt, and pepper.
• 4 in a food processor, process sugar and ginger until ginger is coarsely ground.
• 5 beat butter, sugar/ginger mixture, and vanilla until fluffy, about 5 minutes; add eggs, 1 at a time, beating between additions.
• 6 combine molasses and hot water.
• 7 reduce speed on mixer and add flour mixture, alternately with molasses, in 3 batches, until combined.
• 8 pour batter in prepared pan and cook until cake pulls away from sides and springs back when poked with finger, about 1 hour.
• 9 let cool for 20 minutes, then invert onto cake rack and cool completely.
• 10 dust with confectioner's sugar before serving.