Finally, it's time for gingerbread! If you've forgotten this rather astonishing cake, it's everything a grown-up gingerbread should be: serious, complex, not too sweet. It's bitter-dark with Chuckanut stout and coffee, spiced with ginger, black pepper, cardamom, and clove, sweetened with roasted apples and blackstrap molasses, and with the deep earthiness of buckwheat. Last year I called it Seriously Gingerbread because, as noted above, it's a serious cake, but I'd like to rename it. Something to invoke dark, fairytale forests, I think. If you've been reading Brothers Grimm or The Once and Future King, and have a clever reference handy, bring it with you to market!
See you soon!
Sophie
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