Gingerbread letter cookie cake with ginger and white chocolate frosting
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An elegant gingerbread cake decorated with cookies and candies, topped with white chocolate and ginger frosting. A festive Christmas dessert that's as beautiful to look at as it is to eat.
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Nutrition & ingredients
Ingredients
serves 10- 85 g | 3oz soft light brown sugar
- 200 g | 7oz treacle /blackstrap molasses or half treacle (, half golden syrup)
- 1 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp allspice
- 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- 1/4 tsp salt
- pinch ground white pepper
- 1 tbsp Opies stem ginger syrup ((optional))
- 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 115 g | 1 stick unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1 egg lightly beaten
- 440 g | 15.5oz | 3 1/2 cups plain flour plus more for dusting and rolling
- 3 egg whites 90g | 3.1oz
- 500 g | 5 cups icing powdered sugar (, shifted (more, or less as needed))
- 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract optional
- 450 g | 1lb full-fat mascarpone cheese
- 200 g | 2 cups icing sugar
- 175 g | 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 2-3 tbsp Opies stem ginger syrup
- 4 tbsp Opies stem ginger (, very finely diced)
- Mini gingerbread cookies
- Meringue kisses
- Sprinkles
- Macarons
- Mini candy canes
At a glance
PER SERVING · TIME 34M
BARS = SHARE OF RECIPE CALORIES · RINGS = FDA DV
Complete estimate · 100% of estimated mass resolved
All countable ingredients resolved. Figures are per serving.
- Prep
- 20m
- Cook
- 14m
- Sodium
- 397mg
- Total sugar
- 112g
Added sugar is not shown when one or more ingredients lack reliable added-sugar evidence.
Nutrition estimated from ingredients, per serving.
Vitamins & minerals
- Potassium
- 978mg
- Calcium
- 377mg
- Iron
- 8mg
Estimated from ingredients; USDA coverage varies by food.
- PREP
- 20M
- SODIUM
- 397MG
- ESTIMATE
- COMPLETE
Nutrition estimated from ingredients, per serving. 100% of estimated mass resolved.