Gingerbread Cake

I'm not the hugest fan of Christmas cakes - I only like fruit cake/pudding if it's swimming in copious amounts of custard. This year I wanted to make a cake suitable for Christmas that didn't have fruit in it. I had just made some gingerbread to give to my Secret Santa (you can see the recipe here), so I thought, what if I made this in cake form? I'm glad I did!

GINGERBREAD CAKE

Mix together 2 cups of plain flour with 2 tsp baking soda and 1 tsp baking powder.
Add 3 tsp cinnamon, 3 tsp ginger powder, 1 tsp ground cloves and 1 tsp salt.

Beat together 1/2 block unsalted butter with 3/4 cup dark brown sugar. Add 2 eggs and 3/4 cup molasses.

Alternately add your dry ingredients with 1 cup of buttermilk.

Bake at 160C for about 40 minutes or whenever a skewer comes out clean.

I made a simple glaze of icing sugar and milk, but I think butterscotch sauce would be PERFECT for this.
Simply melt 1 cup of cream, 1 cup brown sugar and 100g butter in a pan.