Gingerbread Cake With Cashew Icing

This is a cozy, comforting, paleo Gingerbread Cake recipe that’s perfect during the holiday season with a hot cup of tea. It’s quick and easy to make—simply blend all the ingredients and bake. When it’s ready, you’ll have a moist, fluffy and grain-free cake that tastes like all your favorite seasonal spices. We topped ours with an easy cashew vanilla icing, but it would also be delicious plain or served warmed with a scoop of Vanilla Bulletproof Ice Cream.
Gingerbread Cake With Cashew Icing
https://www.bulletproof.com/recipes/paleo-gingerbread-cake/
Start to Finish: 1 hour
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup Bulletproof Grass-Fed Ghee or melted butter
- 1/3 cup maple syrup (or your preferred sweetener to taste)
- 3 eggs
- 1.5 cups blanched almond flour
- 1/4 cup tapioca flour
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. apple cider vinegar
- 1 Tbsp. ginger powder (add ½-1 tbsp more if you like a stronger ginger flavor)
- 1 tsp. cinnamon powder
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract (substitute with half as much vanilla powder)
Cashew Icing
- 1.5 cups soaked cashews, strained
- 1/4 cup coconut cream
- 1 Tbsp. Bulletproof Brain Octane C8 MCT Oil
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract (substitute with half as much vanilla powder)
- 2 Tbsp. powdered sweetener of choice (or more to taste)
- 1 squeeze of lemon juice
You’ll only use half a batch of icing for this recipe. Store the other half in the fridge, or make a batch of Carrot Cake Collagen Muffins!
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease and line a springform cake tin with baking paper.
- Add all ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth.
- Pour into the prepared cake tin.
- Place into the oven and bake for 38-40 minutes, or until the cake is cooked through.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool before icing.
- Optional: Garnish with grated orange or lemon zest, some freeze-dried, crushed raspberries, toasted nuts or seeds or a little grating of chocolate.
- Slice and enjoy.
Makes: 8 servings
Nutritional Information (per serving):
- Calories: 445
- Protein: 8.7g
- Carbs: 35.8g
- Fiber: 2.8g
- Sugar: 12.7g
- Fat: 30.4g
- Saturated Fat: 12.1g
- Cholesterol: 91mg
- Salt: 190mgmg
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