Gingerbread Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

Description

From cooking light march 2006

Ingredients

• Sugar
• Butter
• Molasses
• Egg
• Flour
• Ground Ginger
• Baking Soda
• Ground Nutmeg
• Salt
• Ground Cloves
• Nonfat Milk
• Vanilla Extract
• Cooking Spray
• Fat Free Cream Cheese
• Reduced-fat Cream Cheese
• Powdered Sugar
• Lemon Curd

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Cake: place 1 / 3 cup sugar and butter in a medium bowl
3. Beat at high speed for 2 minutes or until well combined
4. Add molasses and egg
5. Beat well
6. Combine flour and next 5 ingredients in a medium bowl
7. Add flour mixture and milk alternately to sugar mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture
8. Stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla
9. Spoon batter into an 8-inch square pan coated with cooking spray
10. Bake for 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean
11. Cool completely on a wire rack
12. Frosting: place cheeses, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and 1 / 8 teaspoon salt in a large bowl
13. Beat with a mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy
14. Gradually add powdered sugar
15. Beat at low speed just until blended
16. Spread frosting evenly over top of cake
17. Top each serving with lemon curd