Gingerbread Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
Easy to make and packed with festive flavours, this Gingerbread Cake with Cream Cheese Icing is the perfect Christmas baking recipe!
Ingredients
- 1 cup apple sauce or mashed banana
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1/3 cup maple syrup or liquid sweetener of choice
- 1/3 cup almond milk or milk of choice
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tsp ground ginger
Icing
- 125g cream cheese at room temp
- 60g butter at room temp
- 1 1/2 cups icing sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°c and line an 8x8 baking pan.
- To a bowl add the apple sauce, eggs, oil, sweetener, vanilla, milk and mix.
- Add in the flour, cinnamon, ginger, baking powder and mix until combined. Transfer mixture into the lined baking pan.
- Bake for 18-20 minutes or until cooked. Once cooked let cool completely.
- While the cake is baking add the cream cheese, butter and icing sugar to a food processor and blend until smooth. Leave in the fridge until the cake is ready.
- Once the cake has cooled, spread the icing and top with a sprinkle of cinnamon and ginger. Slice into 9 pieces and enjoy!
- Store in the fridge - it lasts about 4 days