Spiced Ginger Cake

Ingredients

• 5 ounces or about 10 tablespoons fresh ginger, minced or finely chopped
• 3 tablespoons crystalline/candied ginger, grated or finely chopped
• 3/4 cup molasses (1 cup if using mild/light molasses, as per the original recipe)
• 1 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil, (the original recipe suggests using peanut oil, but i used canola oil)
• 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1.5 teaspoons ground black pepper
• 1 cup water
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 eggs, at room temperature
• confectioner’s sugar to dust