Gingerbread Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 19
- Serves:
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12
ingredients
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Cake
- 1⁄3 cup sugar
- 1⁄4 cup butter, softened
- 1⁄4 cup molasses
- 1 large egg
- 1 1⁄2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 2⁄3 cup nonfat milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- cooking spray
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Frosting
- 1⁄4 cup fat free cream cheese, softened
- 1⁄4 cup reduced-fat cream cheese, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
- 1 3⁄4 cups powdered sugar
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Remaining ingredient
- 1⁄3 cup lemon curd
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- CAKE: Place 1/3 cup sugar and butter in a medium bowl; beat at high speed for 2 minutes or until well combined. Add molasses and egg; beat well.
- Combine flour and next 5 ingredients (through cloves) in a medium bowl.
- Add flour mixture and milk alternately to sugar mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla.
- Spoon batter into an 8-inch square pan coated with cooking spray.
- Bake for 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool completely on a wire rack.
- FROSTING: Place cheeses, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and 1/8 teaspoon salt in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy.
- Gradually add powdered sugar; beat at low speed JUST until blended.
- Spread frosting evenly over top of cake.
- Top each serving with Lemon Curd.
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Reviews
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This was a spicy cake, not overly sweet (the cake itself, that is; of course, the frosting was plenty sweet)...very good with coffee. The cake was a bit tough, but that's a pretty typical quality of low-fat cakes. I loved the addition of the lemon curd on top - I'd never thought of using it with gingerbread. Yum! Thanks for posting.
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Vino Girl
United States
My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
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