Gingerbread Cake
Gingerbread Cake is the perfect light and fluffy, spice filled cake for Christmas that is topped with cream cheese icing.
Servings: 24 Slices
Calories: 346kcal
Ingredients
Gingerbread Cake;
- 1 Cup Butter (220g)
- 1 Cup Brown Sugar (200g)
- ¾ Cup Treacle (270g)
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 3 Large Eggs
- 3 Cups All Purpose Flour (375g)
- 4 teaspoon Ground Ginger (10.56g)
- 3 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon (7.92g)
- ¼ teaspoon Ground Cloves
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- ½ Cup Milk (125mL)
Cream Cheese Icing;
- 1 Cup Cream Cheese, Room Temperature (250g)
- ½ Cup Butter, Softened (110g)
- 2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 and ½ - 3 Cups Icing Sugar (320-380g)
Instructions
Gingerbread Cake;
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F) and grease or line a 24cm (9 and ½") square baking pan with baking paper and set aside.
- Melt the butter, brown sugar and treacle in a medium sized saucepan over a medium heat. Once melted together, take off the heat and add in the vanilla.
- Set aside to cool for 10 minutes before adding in the eggs and mixing them through.
- In a large bowl sift in the dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger and cloves.
- Pour in the treacle mixture and fold through until smooth.
- Finally stir through the milk and then pour into the prepared pan.
- Place in the oven to bake for 40-50 minutes.
- I checked mine at 35 minutes and then kept checking the cake every 5 minutes by inserting a skewer into the middle to check that its done.
- You don't want to over bake!
- Once baked, remove from the oven and allow to cool completely.
Cream Cheese Icing;
- Beat the butter until smooth.
- Add in the cream cheese and beat together until smooth.
- Add in the vanilla extract and slowly add the icing sugar until all combined.
- Smooth over the top and sides of the gingerbread cake (or decorate how you like and serve!
Nutrition
Serving: 1Slice | Calories: 346kcal | Carbohydrates: 57g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 54mg | Sodium: 153mg | Potassium: 206mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 44g | Vitamin A: 42IU | Calcium: 47mg | Iron: 1mg