Gingerbread Pudding Cakes Recipe
My gingerbread pudding cakes are the family’s favorite individual desserts. As someone who tries to eat and cook healthier, small individual desserts are great. They don’t contain high amounts of calories, and they don’t cause wasted ingredients and leftovers. But if you don’t have individual ramekins to bake in, then you can place all the ingredients in an 8×8 baking dish. You can also double the recipe for more servings.
When I bake an entire cake, there is much leftover with only four people. I feel obligated to eat all the dessert to not waste food and not to mention my desserts taste so darn good. All this does not lead to a slim waistline.
Gingerbread pudding cakes are a unique dessert. They are what we call self-saucing cakes, meaning you get a sticky sauce at the bottom of the ramekin when you dive spoon first into the cakes.
Cost to make this recipe.
As desserts go, this one is a winner on the price. I calculated each ramekin costs around $0.42 to make. So for a family of four, like ours, this dessert is under $2.00 to make, eat, and savor. Plus, they take little time to whip up and bake a win-win in my books.
As homesteaders, I can’t reduce the cost much more. Possibly if I made homemade applesauce from my homegrown apples and make my apple cider, but unfortunately, I don’t do that. When I get apples, they get canned for apple pie filling.
Similar desserts to try
Recipe adapted
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Gingerbread Pudding Cakes
Ingredients
- ⅔ cup all-purpose flour …[$0.16]
- 1 tsp baking powder …[$0.04]
- ¼ cup white granulated sugar …[$0.07]
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon …[$0.02]
- ½ tsp ground ginger …[$0.06]
- 2½ Tbsp molasses …[$0.33]
- 3 Tbsp applesauce …[$0.21]
- 2 Tbsp vegetable oil …[$0.04]
- 2 Tbsp milk …[$0.02]
- ½ tsp vanilla extract …[$0.35]
Sauce
- ¼ cup white granulated sugar …[$0.07]
- ¼ cup brown sugar …[$0.12]
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon …[$0.01]
- ½ cup apple cider …[$0.19]
- ¼ cup water …[$0]
Instructions
- Grease four ramekins and preheat oven to 350°F.
- In a bowl, combine all cake ingredients and whisk until the batter is smooth. Divide batter evenly into four greased ramekins.
- In another bowl, whisk together sauce ingredients. Pour sauce evenly on top of batter in ramekins. Do not mix the sauce and batter together. The sauce needs to sit on top of the batter. The sauce should fill to the top of the ramekin.
- Bake cakes in the oven for 20 minutes. Take out of the oven and let sit for 5 minutes before serving.
Gingerbread Pudding Cakes
Ingredients
- ⅔ cup all purpose flour, …[$0.16]
- 1 tsp baking powder, …[$0.04]
- ¼ cup white granulated sugar, …[$0.07]
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon, …[$0.02]
- ½ tsp ground ginger, …[$0.06]
- 2½ Tbsp molasses, …[$0.33]
- 3 Tbsp applesauce, …[$0.21]
- 2 Tbsp vegetable oil, …[$0.04]
- 2 Tbsp milk, …[$0.02]
- ½ tsp vanilla extract, …[$0.35]
Sauce
- ¼ cup white granulated sugar, …[$0.07]
- ¼ cup brown sugar, …[$0.12]
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon, …[$0.01]
- ½ cup apple cider, …[$0.19]
- ¼ cup water, …[$0]
Instructions
- Grease four ramekins and preheat oven to 350°F.
- In a bowl combine all cake ingredients and whisk until batter is smooth. Divide batter evenly into four greased ramekins.
- In another bowl whisk together sauce ingredients. Pour sauce evenly on top of batter in ramekins. Do not mix the sauce and batter together. The sauce needs to sit on top of batter. The sauce should fill to the top of the ramekin.
- Bake cakes in the oven for 20 minutes. Take out of the oven and let sit for 5 minutes before serving.