Vegan Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
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A moist spiced applesauce cake packed with warm winter spices like cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, and cloves, topped with vegan cream cheese frosting. Nourishing and deeply flavored.
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Nutrition & ingredients
Ingredients
serves 9- 1 tablespoon flax seed meal
- 1/4 cup of water
- 1.5 - 1.75 cups of flour (, (I use 3/4 cup spelt/whole wheat and 3/4 cup or more all purpose), see Notes for glutenfree)
- 1/3 cup brown sugar (, or coconut sugar. (2 tbsp more for sweeter))
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1.5 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp ground cardamom
- 1/4 tsp ground cloves
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1/3 cup chopped dates (or other dried fruit or cranberries)
- 3/4 cup room temperature applesauce (( I use lightly sweetened))
- 1/4 cup oil
- 1 tsp vanilla (, optional)
- 1/3 cup grated apple or carrot or zucchini (, optional - Grate, lightly squeeze in a paper towel to remove exess moisture before using)
At a glance
PER SERVING · TIME 45M
BARS = SHARE OF RECIPE CALORIES · RINGS = FDA DV
Complete estimate · 100% of estimated mass resolved
All countable ingredients resolved. Figures are per serving.
- Prep
- 10m
- Cook
- 35m
- Sodium
- 168mg
- Total sugar
- 12g
Added sugar is not shown when one or more ingredients lack reliable added-sugar evidence.
Nutrition estimated from ingredients, per serving.
Vitamins & minerals
- Potassium
- 144mg
- Calcium
- 21mg
- Iron
- 1mg
Estimated from ingredients; USDA coverage varies by food.
- PREP
- 10M
- SODIUM
- 168MG
- ESTIMATE
- COMPLETE
Nutrition estimated from ingredients, per serving. 100% of estimated mass resolved.