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Grandma's Heart Healthy Gingerbread Cake

Course Dessert

Ingredients
  

  • 1 ¼ cups self rising flour
  • cups reduced fat Bisquick
  • ¼ tsp baking soda
  • ½ cup molasses
  • ¼ cup applesauce
  • ¼ cup Canola Oil
  • ¼ cup egg beaters
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp ginger
  • ½ tsp nutmeg
  • ½ tsp all spice
  • 1⅓ cups fat free buttermilk
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • Lemon Sauce mix 1½ cups of sugar and 2 tbsp cornstarch. Gradually add 1 cup bottled apple juice. Stir until smooth. Cook over medium heat until thick. Remove from heat to cool. Add 1tbsp egg substitute, 1 teaspoon lemon rind and 3 tbsp lemon juice. Return to heat and cook to desired thickness.
  • English Cream Recipe follows

Instructions
 

  • 1. Set oven to 350°. In a large mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients. Add remaining ingredients ( except lemon sauce and English cream) and using an electric mixer, beat thoroughly until mixture is smooth.
  • 2. Pour batter into a 9 X 13 inch baking pan that has been sprayed with nonstick baking spray. Bake 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean. Serve with lemon sauce or English Cream.
  • English Cream: Combine ¾ egg substitute and ½ cup sugar. Set aside. Warm 2 cups fat free half and half to a low simmer. Remove 1 cup cream and whisk into the egg mixture. When thoroughly mixed, add to remaining cup of cream. Do not let it come to a boil. Continue to cook and stir until mixture coats the back of the spoon. Remove from heat and add 1 Tbsp. bourbon.
  • Gingerbread with Cream Cheese Filling: Spray tube pan with nonstick vegetable spray. Set aside. Prepare Cream Cheese filling ( see below). Set aside. Spoon ½ gingerbread batter into prepared tube pan. Place filling in center of batter within ½ inch of edge. Top filling with remaining batter. Bake at 350° for 40-50 minutes or until done. Spoon Lemon Glaze ( see below) over top while cake is still warm. When sliced the filling appears to be in a tube surrounded by gingerbread. Serve with English Cream on the side.
  • Cream Cheese Filling: Combine 8 oz softened cream cheese, 1 cup sugar, ⅓ cup flour, and ¼ cup of egg beaters. Cook over medium heat until thickened. When cool, spread over cake or use as jelly roll filling.
  • Lemon Glaze: Combine 2 Tbsp. lemon juice with 1 cup confectioner's sugar.
Keyword cake, gingerbread, healthy, heart
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