The reviewer gave this recipe 1 stars. This recipe averages a 3.9 star rating.
Reviewed: May 11, 2012
If I could give this recipe a 0, I would. I am a good baker. In fact, I worked at a high end restaurant as a baker for a couple years. I have never had a recipe go so badly as this one. This is the first time I've even bothered to rate/review a recipe on here. The first attempt at the cake, the batter split. I have no idea how that happened. One second it was good, the next it was split and I had to toss it. Second attempt... this is just a BAD recipe. This is *NOT* how you make cake batter... it is very strange. The batter was extremely thick but I baked it anyways. I let the cakes sit for about 10 mins after coming out of the oven and then turned one over. The cake immediately fell apart... I tried to piece it back together but it all kept crumbling. Worst cake texture ever. Since this pile of cake was ruined, I tasted it. It tastes okay but it is very sticky... it sticks to the roof of your mouth and has a raw flour taste (probably from the large amount of corn starch and baking powder, I would guess). Anyways, I suggest moving on to a different recipes. This was just a plain disaster.
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The reviewer gave this recipe 1 stars. This recipe averages a 3.9 star rating.
Reviewed: Apr. 24, 2012
To much clove!
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The reviewer gave this recipe 4 stars. This recipe averages a 3.9 star rating.
Reviewed: Apr. 10, 2012
it was very good, I loved all the flavour of this cake! but the bottom of the cake was quite a bit dryer than the top (weird or what?!) other than that it was very good though - I will def'ly try it again, maybe won't leave it in as long as I did. I made it with a cream cheese frosting (also somewhere here on allrecipes) soo good.
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The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 3.9 star rating.
Reviewed: Jan. 28, 2012
I creamed the butter and sugar together then mixed in 1/3 of dry, sifted ingredients with 1/2 wet ingredients, then 1/3 dry, 1/2 wet and 1/3 dry - worked perfectly! I picked that tip from Anna Olsen tv show 'Sugar' on Food Network. Delicious cake, will definitely make again!
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Reviewed: Dec. 29, 2011
The flavor is perfect, but the consistency is not. My cake broke into pieces when trying to remove it from the greased and floured pan - it stuck to the bottom anyway. I tried to slice it out of the pan and got some slices but mostly crumbles. Don't know how I'm going to frost it...
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Reviewed: Dec. 21, 2011
It was very dry and tasted like plaster. I am a frequent baker and followed the recipe exactly. I was very disapointed in the end product.
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Reviewed: Oct. 29, 2011
Extremely moist! Omitted the ground ginger & didn't notice a difference.
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Reviewed: Oct. 19, 2011
This is the first time I've baked a cake from scratch... so I'm probably easily impressed by how well this came out ;) I did find the cake to be a bit dry, but not too much so - however, I did make a change by using 2 9-inch round cake pans instead of 1 9x13 inch pan as directed. Tried to adjust my baking time a little bit, but probably was just a bit off in doing so. Everything else was fantastic - spices, amounts, the ability of the cake to stand up to my novice handling for the 2-layer assembly, and even the method of combining the ingredients was clear enough for me to follow. I would definitely recommend an electric mixer for that part - and while it may just be inexperience, I'd call the stage before the brown sugar addition more 'granular' than 'pebble-like', as I never saw anything that looked like well-structured little stones. Batter consistency was thick but pourable in a 75-F degree kitchen. I frosted & assembled a 2-layer cake using "Cream Cheese Frosting II" from this site, which took a little work to get reasonably even on the sides, but came out fine & tasted fanastic :D Will make again!! - maybe using a more 'standard' ingredient mixing approach as discussed elsewhere in the reviews for this recipe.
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Reviewed: Oct. 6, 2011
Mixing the butter with the dry ingredients, instead of creaming the butter and sugar together and adding the other wet ingredients, creates a finer crumbed, more tender cake. This kind of a cake can support a heavy frosting.
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Reviewed: Sep. 24, 2011
followed this to a T......dryest cake I've ever eaten.
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