This Chocolate Gingerbread Pound Cake is a great way for chocolate lovers to enjoys gingerbread during the holidays!
When the holidays roll around, I think cookies, portable cakes and seasonal flavors, such as eggnog, peppermint & gingerbread. Now, even though I do a lot of baking this time of year, I still like to keep our treats as healthy as I can without sacrificing flavor and texture.
A mix of oil and butter is used in the pound cake to create rich flavor while keeping saturated fat down.
For a few more chocolatey holiday treats try my Hot Chocolate Dip Recipe or Chocolate Shortbread Cookies Recipe . For a guilt free option, make some Healthy Chocolate Truffles!
If gingerbread is what you are craving, perhaps my Old Fashioned Gingerbread Cake, Gingerbread Muffins, Gingerbread Pie or Gingerbread Cake Roll might do the trick.
Chocolate Gingerbread Pound Cake Recipe
Ingredients
Chocolate Ginger Poundcake
- ¼ cup unsalted butter melted
- ¼ cup oil
- 1 ¼ cup sugar or reduced/zero calorie natural sweetener that measures like sugar
- ½ teaspoon Kosher salt
- ½ cup molasses unsulfured
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup apple sauce
- 2 large eggs
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon allspice
- ¾ cup cocoa powder
- ½ cup whole wheat flour
- ¾ cup flour
- non-stick cooking spray and flour for dusting
Ginger-Vanilla Glaze (optional)
- 1 tbs melted butter
- 1 ½ tbs confectionery sugar
- ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Place melted butter, oil, sugar and salt in mixing bowl. Whisk together well.
- Add molasses, vanilla, applesauce, eggs and milk. Mix well.
- In another bowl, whisk together the baking soda, spices and flours, then add to the wet batter, and mix until smooth and even.
- Coat a loaf pan with cooking spray, and flour pan.
- Pour batter into pan and bake for 55-65 minutes, until pick pulls clean from center. Set on rack to cool.
- If you choose to glaze the cake, whisk together glaze ingredients until smooth, then drizzle over the cooled poundcake.
Leilani says
I love poundcake! I've never tried a chocolate/ginberbread combo before, but it sounds yummy!
Robin (Masshole Mommy) says
I bet if I made a loaf of this and sent it in with my hubby to work, he would be the superstar of the day there.
Toni says
Drool!! You always come up with the best recipes!
Theresa says
This looks fantastic.
Crystal @ Simply Being Mommy.com says
Oh my goodness, that chocolate poundcake looks delicious. I'm definitely going to try to make this. It just looks too good not to.