Whole Wheat Gingerbread with Cinnamon Buttercream Frosting

December 12, 2013

I wanted to make something my kids would eat for our play group Christmas party this year. I know my daughter (the picky one) loves a good spice cake and my son will pretty much devour anything with frosting on it, so I decided to do some gingerbread. I did some with cinnamon buttercream and then some sprinkled with confectioners sugar with a dash of cinnamon because my daughter does not like frosting.

For the Gingerbread:
1 cup of white sugar
1 cup of butter
2 eggs
2 cups of molasses
5 cups of whole wheat flour
3 tsp of baking soda
3 tsp ground cinnamon
3 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp salt
5-6 cups of hot water (this will vary depending on your flour you want your batter a little bit thicker than a normal cake batter, but not so thick it could be a cookie dough)
For Cinnamon Buttercream Frosting:
3 cups confectioners' sugar
1 cup of butter
1tsp vanilla extract
1 to 2 tbsp whipping cream
2 tsp of ground cinnamon

For the Gingerbread: Preheat oven to 350?. Grease and flour your cake pans. This will make roughly 30 large cupcakes or two 9x9 inch squares. The cupcakes take 15 minutes and the square pans will take about...
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Nutritions

Calories
297

Sodium
243mg
10% DV

Fat
12g
18% DV

Protein
3g
7% DV

Carbs
44g
15% DV

Fiber
3g
14% DV