Gingerbread Pudding Cake
Easy homemade pudding cake! This Gingerbread Pudding Cake is a moist apple gingerbread cake that makes its own caramel apple sauce while it bakes. There’s just something about the combination of the warm spices, moist cake, and molasses that I can’t get enough of!
And this gingerbread pudding cake does part of the work for you. Just add the topping ingredients, and, like magic, it forms a sauce underneath the cake as it bakes. Top it with a little whipped cream for some extra deliciousness.
Gingerbread Pudding Cake
PREP TIME:
10 minutes
COOK TIME:
40 minutes
TOTAL TIME:
50 minutes
SERVINGS:
12
Gingerbread Pudding Cake
INGREDIENTS
CAKE
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/3 cup molasses
1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
TOPPING
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar packed
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup apple cider
1/2 cup water
INSTRUCTIONS
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and spices. Set aside.
- In a separate large bowl, whisk together applesauce, milk, oil, molasses, and vanilla together until well-combined.
- Stir dry ingredients into wet ingredients until combined.
- Pour batter into an 8x11-inch (shallow 2 quart), or similarly sized, baking dish.
- In a separate bowl, stir sugars and cinnamon together.
- Sprinkle topping evenly over the batter.
- Pour apple cider and water over the topping. DO NOT STIR!
- Bake for 40 minutes, or until middle is set.
- Cool 5-10 minutes before serving.
- Top with toasted pecans, if desired.