Blue Ribbon Gingerbread - Moist Old-Fashioned Molasses Gingerbread Cake

Today is one of those days you just want to hunker down indoors with a warm blanket, a good book and something hot to drink . . . and . . . well . . . while you have the kettle and the fire on, you might as well bake something cozy to enjoy along with that hot drink. I don't think you can get much cosier than Gingerbread. It is filled with lovely flavours that just spell "Home Sweet Home" to me. Scents and flavours that make us think back to our childhoods, and the comfortable warmth of our Grandmother's aproned lap. This has to be one of the best Ginger breads you could ever want to bake. Its a recipe I adapted from an old book of mine written by the late Marion Cunningham called "Lost Suppers." Every recipe in this book is a winner. This is cozy, cozy, cozy . . . and filled with lots of warm flavours . . . cinnamon, ginger, cloves . . . and I added some ground cardamom, which worked very well. Oh, it smelled a little bit like what I suppose Heaven to smell like while it was baking.…