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You are here: Home » Blog » Real Food » Recipes » Scrumptious Gingerbread Cake

Scrumptious Gingerbread Cake

December 3, 2008     Keeper of the Home    19 Comments

There is nothing like the smell of warm gingerbread, wafting out of the oven on a cool winter day…

This is my favorite gingerbread cake recipe, which I made for my daughter’s 4th birthday party. Guess somebody else thought warm gingerbread sounded just right, because they asked me to post the recipe, so here it is!

Cake-at-abbie's-birthday

And the icing on the cake, of course…

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Cream Cheese Honey Icing Recipe

Course: Desserts and Sweets
Author: Ann Timm

Ingredients

  • 1 pkg cream cheese softened
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1-2 Tbsp honey depends how sweet you like it
  • raw milk

Instructions

  • Add all to a small mixing bowl, including a few Tbsp of raw milk. Start mixing with handheld beater, and slowly add more milk until you achieve the consistency you like.
  • Taste many times, just to make sure it still tastes good. Share the beaters with your 4 year old and feel like a kid again.

To make a colored icing, add a little less milk and instead thaw some berries to mix in. I use raspberry for red (but really more of a pink) coloring, blackberry for purple, and blueberry for (what else?) blue. You can see above that I didn’t color my icing this time, but put frozen raspberries around the edge (note- frozen raspberries will melt and drip all over the white icing!) If you’re brave, you can try using liquid Chlorophyll for green. Any ideas for yellow or orange?

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  1. Beatrice

    December 3, 2008 at 9:28 AM

    I’ll definitely try that gingerbread cake recipe! Sounds great.

    I’m also interested in your topic of substituting honey for sugar. We’ve recently purchase some agave syrup too which apparently is even better than honey on the glycemic index.

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  2. Nola

    December 3, 2008 at 4:08 PM

    Wow I never thought about using berries and things like that for “food colouring”, I just always left out food colouring and dealt with having a non-coloured product. So obvious and common sense but I didn’t think of it! I will have to try it next time I do something that requires icing!

    I don’t know what you could use for yellow or orange…other than carrots or lemons? The thing is that with those they aren’t overly sweet (especially the lemons!) and I don’t think the lemons would die the white icing very well…I don’t know. But it might work to try for something that already has lemon or carrots in it…just a thought.

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  3. Laura V.

    December 3, 2008 at 4:51 PM

    This looks very yummy! I will definitely be trying it! I’m very into baking right now with the weather already so cold.

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  4. Tamara

    December 4, 2008 at 12:34 PM

    I am curious if you ever servet this without frosting. Is it good plain or not sweet enough?

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  5. Stephanie @ Keeper of the Home

    December 4, 2008 at 1:16 PM

    Nola, I did think of carrots. I might give it a try sometime.

    Tamara, I’ve had it without icing and it’s still really good. The friend who gave me the recipe served it with only a very thin icing that was just drizzled and that was nice. Without the icing, it just tastes a bit more like a coffee cake style of bar, rather than being quite as cakey.

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  6. sarah

    December 5, 2008 at 6:02 PM

    yellow – a very small amount of turmeric
    orange – microplane a carrot and squeeze 1/2 teaspoons of carrot at a time into the recipe mixing after each batch. this also works with beet to make pink.

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  7. sarah

    December 5, 2008 at 6:03 PM

    p.s. and by squeeze carrot, i mean squeeze the juice out of it, not add the actual carrot pulp! 🙂

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  8. Tamara

    December 8, 2008 at 9:08 AM

    I made the cake and it tasted really good. But it did not quite work out for me. What size pan do you normally bake it in? Mine rose way up and overflowed the pan!!!!!

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  9. Stephanie @ Keeper of the Home

    December 8, 2008 at 11:37 AM

    I used a medium sized springform pan (the kind that release on the sides so that only the bottom remains). I think it’s a bit too big of a recipe to use a regular round cake pan. Maybe more like a 9 x 13? I think I remember my friend using a bread pan once, which made nice thick, loaf-style slices as well.

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  10. Jonell

    December 8, 2009 at 9:46 PM

    mmm, adding this to my recipe file. 🙂

    Reply
  11. Kate

    September 14, 2010 at 6:28 PM

    I just made this with sprouted flour. It was interesting. A bit dry and gritty, which is mostly due to the sprouted flour I apparently didn’t grind completely. But I think using water instead of milk makes the cake drier, too. I’d probably use milk next time. The frosting was “okay” — we aren’t huge cream cheese fans though. The kids loved it. Both wanted more. I liked the flavor of the cake. I might play with this some more and see what I come up with. Also learned I can’t use sucanat because it gives me a headache. Hmm…maybe I shouldn’t eat sugar? lol.

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  12. Kate

    September 16, 2010 at 3:29 PM

    In case you’re interested, I made some changes to this to adapt for better use with sprouted flour. I also adapted it to use honey instead of sugar and only 1/2 the amount of sweetener called for. It was soft, moist, and delicious. If you’re interested. 🙂

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    • Stephanie @ Keeper of the Home

      September 17, 2010 at 8:59 AM

      @Kate, Cool, good to know that it worked well that way! I honestly haven’t played around with that recipe very much, but I’m happy to know that you did it for me. 🙂

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  13. Erica Bowler

    November 27, 2010 at 10:40 AM

    Hi Stephanie,
    Thanks for this recipe! Just one question—are the measurements for the spices and baking soda/powder supposed to actually be tsp, not Tbsp?
    I made the cake this morning, assuming a typo and using smaller amounts, but haven’t tried it yet. I’ll let you know…
    Thanks,
    Erica.

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  14. Erica Bowler

    November 27, 2010 at 10:53 AM

    Hi again,
    Ok, I tried it with the measurement change and it turned out really nice. Still very spicy.
    Take care,
    Erica.

    Reply
  15. AmandaonMaui

    July 20, 2011 at 2:38 PM

    Carrots for orange. Finely grate some carrots, wring them out in a bit of cheese cloth into a bowl, and use the liquid for your coloring. The flavor won’t be too strong but might be a bit carrot-y.

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  16. Angie Burress

    December 12, 2012 at 8:05 PM

    You can use avocado to make green icing.

    Reply
  17. Kristen Johnson

    May 30, 2013 at 11:55 AM

    Carrots make an awesome orange and also a great yellow with a more diluted use! Biscuiteers in London makes cookies for the Royal Family, uses exclusively powdered vegetable food coloring in all of it’s baked goods and is more than happy to ship and help communicate which veggies and fruits they use in this process! I am also a baker who is exploring these colors and would love to hear your input as well. We can all learn and grow from eachother’s experience FOR SURE! Hope this helps!

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  18. Abigail

    July 6, 2013 at 9:48 PM

    This is delicious! Thanks! I substituted gluten-free flours for the flour and added 2 1/2 tsp xanthan gum. I was afraid it’d taste like baking soda, as the dough did, but it turned out delicious. Cooked it in a round 8×8 pan and it was just right.
    thanks!

    Reply

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