Molasses & Ginger Spice Cake

warm everything

My earliest encounter with a really dark, fresh ginger cake like this was at my first baking job, at Summer Kitchen in Berkeley. The owner, Charlene, was a former Chez Panisse pastry chef, and even though my stint at Summer Kitchen was pretty short (she encouraged me to go chase my dream job baking bread, thank you Charlene!) I learned a handful of tech…