You must be talking about a gingerbread cake, not a gingerbread cookie? I've only done the cookies. But my pumpkin bread recipe comes out pretty dark and rich and could almost accomplish the same thing. It's the recipe in an older version of The Joy of Cooking. I don't drink coffee, so I don't have coffee cans around. I suppose you could do a loaf if you really cleaned out the inside of the Hunts spaghetti sauce can? ;-D

SRS