Easy Homemade Gingerbread Dessert Taco
This classic fall/winter flavor recipe comes with a twist: dinner for dessert! Say hello to a sweet, gingerbread-flavored taco with cream cheese and ricotta filling, topped with chocolate chips and dried cranberries. Guess what? It's gluten and mostly grain-free (aside from corn starch)!
Equipment
- 1 Waffle Cone Maker Required
- 1 Small mixing bowl
- 1 Spatula
- Cling wrap
- 1 Spoon
- 1 Piping bag or ziplock bag with tip cut off
Ingredients
Ingredients for Gingerbread Shell
- 1 Cup Heavy cream
- 1 ½ tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 ½ Cup Powdered sugar
- 1 ½ Cup Tiger nut all-purpose flour If you don't have allergies to wheat you can replace this with the same amount of regular AP flour.
- 1 TBSP Cornstarch
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- 1 tsp Allspice
- 1 tsp Ginger
- ½ tsp Nutmeg
- ½ tsp Ground cloves
- Olive oil spray
Ingredients for Filling
- 1 Cup Ricotta
- 8 oz Cream cheese
- ½ Cup Semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ¼ Cup Powdered sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
Instructions
- Gather the ingredients for the waffle cone and filling
- Set up a small wire rack above two jars and ensure there’s empty space either on one side or in between. This allows the shells to drape in between and form a “U”-shaped bottom
- In the standing mixer on on medium speed with a handheld mixer, whip the heavy cream with the vanilla extract just enough to form a texture similar to mousse. There should not be peaks
- Add remaining waffle ingredients until just incorporated
- Let the batter rest for 30 minutes
- Heat up the waffle iron and grease plates with oil spray of choice
- Use 1 ½ TBS of batter per shell and grease waffle plates in between. The shell may seem like it will break apart but it just needs time to cool to solidify.
- Use a spatula to gently lift the taco shell from the waffle plate to a separate plate
- Allow the shell to cool for 10 seconds before transferring them to the wire rack and forming taco shells (see prep pics above for an example)
- Add filling ingredients to the standing mixer after cleaning the bowl and whip together on low speed
- Scoop filling into a piping bag and pipe filling into shell
- Add any additional toppings. Serve and enjoy!