A delicious cake with a decadent cream cheese frosting, this dessert is an excellent lighter option to make as a seasonal homemade dessert. Easy to make and a real crowd-pleaser, it's the perfect way to use your pumpkin pie spice blend.
For years ginger has been a favorite food, especially for those following a healthy diet. Packed with health benefits, gingers spicy flavor makes it easy to blend into sweet and savory dishes. A well-loved spice, ginger is warming and zingy and holds a distinctive taste and aroma. It works to balance out sweeter spices like cinnamon and nutmeg and comes in yellow, white and red varieties. In this recipe, just two teaspoons of ginger are needed to add the perfect zing to your favorite holiday treats.
Though the name may suggest this spice is already a blend, allspice is actually a single spice made from the allspice tree's dried berries. The dried berries closely resemble peppercorns and carry a flavor similar to the combination of cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and pepper. Commonly used in desserts, Middle Eastern Dishes and Latin American cuisines, allspice is a versatile seasoning viral year-round. While allspice is a single spice, if a recipe calls for allspice and you don't have any on hand, a substitute can be created by combining equal parts clove, cinnamon and nutmeg. Additionally, if you don't have any of these ingredients on hand, allspice can be used instead.
