Chewy Double Ginger Squares

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1/2 cup molasses
• 1/4 cup butter, melted
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 pinch salt
• 1/2 cup crystallized ginger, chopped
• 1 cup icing sugar
• 1/4 cup butter, melted
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 grease a 13" x 9" cake pan; line with parchment paper and set aside.
• 3 in a bowl, whisk together the sugar, molasses, butter, eggs, and vanilla.
• 4 in a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and salt.
• 5 stir into the butter mixture until combined.
• 6 stir in the crystallized ginger and scrape into the prepared pan.
• 7 bake in the centre of the oven until a cake tester inserted in the centre comes out clean, about 40 minutes.
• 8 let cool in the pan on a rack for 45 minutes.
• 9 to make the glaze, stir together the icing sugar, butter and lemon juice.
• 10 spread over the squares while still warm.
• 11 let cool completely and cut into squares.