Gingerbread Bars with Cream Cheese Icing

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 3/4 teaspoons ground ginger (if you use fresh ginger use 1 teaspoon)

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 2/3 cup unsalted butter, melted (high fat content- European style)

• 2/3 cup dark brown sugar, packed

• 1/2 cup unsulphured molasses

• 1 large egg

• 1 tanon vanilla

Cream Cheese Icing

• 1/2 cup cream cheese, at room temperature

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature

• 3 cups icing sugar, sifted

• Pinch of salt

*optional

• holiday sprinkles. peppermint frost ( chopped peppermint candy). or candied ginger flakes (for the ginger lover)