RECIPE OF THE WEEK: Tender Gingerbread Cake

Many foods are associated with Christmastime, but none are perhaps as familiar as gingerbread. Although gingerbread's slightly spicy and warming tang is often enjoyed in cookie form or baked into panels used to create gingerbread houses, the spice combination of ginger, cloves, and cinnamon can impart a delicious flavor to cakes as well.

INGREDIENTS

1 cup packed muscovado sugar

(dark brown works great)

1/2 cup plus 2 Tablespoons butter, softened

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 eggs, room temperature

1/4 cup plain full-fat Greek

or plain yogurt

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder...