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While many gingerbread recipes call for using dried ginger and other spices, make gingerbread that uses grated peeled ginger. The ginger will add moisture to the cake and will give a spicier flavor to the classic bakery cake. The flavor of gingerbread will improve as it's stored. Try to make gingerbread at least 1 day before you plan to serve it. Cinnamon is often the main spice used in traditional pumpkin pie, but you can highlight the flavor of ginger. Stir 1 1/2 tablespoons (9 g) of grated ginger into your favorite pumpkin pie filling before baking it. To add an extra ginger flavor to the pie, sprinkle a little dried and ground ginger into sweetened whipped cream. Serve the whipped cream on the side. Bake crisp gingersnaps or soft spiced ginger cookies that use ginger root. Add about 3 tablespoons (18 g) of fresh grated ginger to your favorite spice or gingersnap cookie recipe for a bright ginger flavor. Many cookie recipes already call for dried ground ginger. To substitute fresh ginger, add half as much fresh ginger as the recipe calls for. For example, if the recipe calls for 2 teaspoons (4 g) of ground ginger, use 1 teaspoon (1 g) of grated fresh ginger. Add the exciting flavor of ginger to simply flavored pound cakes. Ginger also works well with lemon, orange, lime, and other citrus flavors. Add about 2 teaspoons (2 g) of fresh grated ginger to your cake batter. Consider mixing some ginger syrup into enough powdered sugar to make a quick glaze. Pour the ginger glaze over the cake once it's cool. Take a 2 ounce (57 g) piece of ginger root and leave its peel on. Pulse the ginger in a food processor until it's finely ground. Combine the ginger with the sugar according to your muffin recipe. Stir together the rest of the recipe's ingredients and bake them in a muffin tin. The ginger works well with these muffin flavors: Blueberry Pear and walnut Lemon poppyseed
Bake gingerbread using grated ginger. Include grated ginger root in pumpkin pie. Make spiced cookies using grated ginger. Add ginger to pound or citrus cakes. Use minced fresh ginger in muffin batter.