Gingerbread Loaf

5 from 1 vote

This delicious, soft, moist Gingerbread Loaf Cake recipe features a festive eggnog glaze on top. The simple holiday cake is great after a meal or with coffee in the morning.

Course Breakfast, Dessert

Cuisine European

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 55

Total Time 1 10

Servings

Calories 407kcal

Author Robin Gagnon

Equipment

Loaf pan

Ingredients

Bread

2 ⅓ cup all purpose flour
1 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¼ teaspoon ground allspice
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
¾ cup unsalted butter melted
¾ cup unsulphured molasses
½ cup hot water
½ cup milk
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Eggnog Glaze

2 cups powdered sugar
¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ cup eggnog

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Prepare a loaf pan by spraying with baking spray and set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, add all the dry ingredients. The flour, brown sugar, ginger, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, allspice, baking soda and salt. Whisk together until the ingredients are combined.
Now add all the wet ingredients at once, except the molasses. The melted butter, hot water, milk, vanilla and eggs. Whisk together until a smooth batter is formed.
Pour in the molasses and whisk once more just until combined.
Pour the gingerbread cake batter into the prepared pan.
Bake in the oven for 50-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
While that is baking, make the eggnog glaze. In another mixing bowl add the powdered sugar, vanilla and eggnog all at once. Whisk together until smooth and clump free.
When the loaf bread is done, remove from the oven and let cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
Remove the bread from the pan, it should come out very easily, and place on a wire rack or serving platter to finish cooling.
Use a spoon to drizzle the eggnog glaze all over the gingerbread loaf.

Notes

Nutrition calculated based on a rough estimate of 80% of the icing adhering to the gingerbread loaf.

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