Helen Witty

Gingerbread

Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    eight-inch-square cake
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Better Than Store-Bought: Authoritative recipes that most people never knew they could make at home
Better Than Store-Bought

By Helen Witty and Elizabeth Schneider

Published 1979

  • About

Ingredients

  • 1 cup boiling water
  • ¾ stick (6 tablespoons) unsalted butter, cut into smal

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees (325 degrees if you are using a glass baking pan). Butter and flour an 8 X 8-inch baking pan.
  2. Combine the boiling water, butte