I was at Wegman’s a couple of weeks ago and I found some Wild Friends peanut butter. It took me a second to realize they were all seasonal/holiday flavors: Gingerbread, Sugar cookie, and Pumpkin spice! Of course, I had to buy all three. All the flavors are delicious, but the one that stood out the most in my mind was the Gingerbread flavor. It was so…. GINGERBREAD-Y! You could really taste the spiciness of the gingerbread spices. The ingredients include roasted peanuts, molasses, evaporated cane sugar, peanut oil, organic vanilla, and gingerbread spices. All of these ingredients I recognize and can pronounce, which is always a good thing when you’re choosing what brands of food to buy! So here, I made a gingerbread cake. I actually wanted them to be brownies, but it turned out to be a deliciously moist cake. Not complaining! I incorporated this Gingerbread peanut butter, duh!
RECIPE:
- 3/4 cup Wild Friends Gingerbread peanut butter (buy HERE on amazon!)
- 1/4 cup earth balance butter spread
- 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate morsels
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon cloves
- 1 teaspoon ginger
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup almond milk
- 1/2 cup boiling water
INSTRUCTIONS:
- in a small sauce pan, melt earth balance butter, peanut butter, semi sweet chocolate morsels and vanilla until smooth
- remove from heat and let cool slightly
- transfer mixture to a larger mixing bowl
- add almond milk and mix until smooth – this should cool the mixture down even more so when you add the egg, it doesn’t cook!
- add egg and mix until smooth
- in a separate bowl, mix flour, brown sugar, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa powder, cloves, ginger, and salt
- add dry ingredients to chocolate peanut butter mixture in about 3 increments, mixing after each addition
- boil water and add to batter
note: adding boiling water helps make sure the batter isn’t clumpy – cocoa powder and brown sugar can clump together
- whisk until batter is smooth
- bake in a greased 9 x 11 baking dish at 350 for about 20-25 minutes or until toothpick or knife comes out clean
- garnish with powdered sugar and serve with tea! or coffee 🙂 OR top with more gingerbread peanut butter!!! … best idea ever
This looks so delicious and sweet! Thanks so much for sharing!