Soft Gingerbread Cake

Mjuk Pepparkaka is one of the family recipes in this book; it was a standard coffee cake in my home. In Scandinavia, gingerbread cakes are a traditional must-have for the holidays, but this cake is really too good to ignore for a year at a time. My sister and I used to have big arguments over whose turn it was to scrape the last of the batter from the mixing bowl. It was, in our opinion, every bit as good raw as it would be when baked.