I love when gingerbread and gingersnaps are really punchy with spices and molasses. And while Trader Joe’s new Gingerbread Mini Sheet Cake is tasty, it’s kinda just a spice cake. With a cinnamon cream cheese frosting.
While I’m usually the person who scrapes off most of the frosting, this one is pretty good. Yes, of course, its sweet, but the cream cheese isn’t too tangy and the cinnamon brings a nice hit of flavor to it.
The crumb is soft and this one was moist (as always check for the furthest out best by dates on these cakes). I actually grabbed a box of the new Mini Gingerbread Madeleine Cookies, too, since they’re basically little cakes themselves and while those would be good with tea, the texture is a little firmer/tougher. About the same level of spice.
But I digress…anyway!
Would I buy Trader Joe’s Gingerbread Mini Sheet cake again? For me, nah. It’s good, but not WOW. There are other mini sheet cake flavors I like better (especially the gluten-free yellow cake with chocolate frosting). And in fact, if the Pumpkin Loaf is still kicking around your store, I’d grab one of those instead. But if you’re celebrating someone’s birthday and they like spice cake, you can definitely bring them one of these and decorate it with some mini gingerbread men.
Check out some other holiday We Tried’s from Trader Joe’s:
Sparkling Cranberry Ginger Beverage
Chocolate Peppermint Loaf & Baking Mix
