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Gingerbread Cake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
  • subheading: For the gingerbread cake:
  • subheading: Dry ingredients:
  • 350 g | 2 ¾ cups plain flour (all purpose flour)
  • 330 g | 1 ⅔ cups dark brown sugar
  • 2 tsp ground ginger
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp ground cloves
  • 1 tbsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
  • ½ tsp salt
  • subheading: Liquid ingredients:
  • 200 g | ¾ cup + 1 heaped tbsp unsalted butter cubed
  • 3 large eggs lightly beaten
  • 2 tbsp treacle (molasses) optional
  • 1 orange zest only
  • 200 ml ¾ cup + 2 tbsp whole milk
  • 1 tbsp fresh orange or lemon juice
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3 tbsp crystallised (candied) ginger or stem ginger very finely diced
  • subheading: For the frosting:
  • 300 g | 1 ⅓ cups full-fat cream cheese
  • ½ tbsp ground cinnamon or vanilla paste
  • 400 g | 1 ¾ cups double cream (heavy cream) whipped to soft peaks
  • 200 g | 2 cups icing sugar (powdered sugar)
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