How To Make Applesauce Ginger Loaf
This moist and delectable applesauce ginger loaf recipe can go well with a cup of tea. You can add finely chopped ginger and orange extract to the frosting.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1½cupsall-purpose flour
- 2¼tspground ginger
- 2tspground cinnamon
- 1tspground cloves
- 1tspsalt
- 1cupwhite sugar
- ½cupbutter,softened
- 1tsporange extract
- 1tspbaking soda
- 1cupapplesauce
For the Frosting:
- 8ozcream cheese,(1 package) softened
- 1tspvanilla extract
- ½tsporange extract
- 2½cupsconfectioners’ sugar
- 2tbspcrystallized ginger,finely chopped, or to taste
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9×5-inch loaf pans.
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Combine flour, ground ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and salt in a bowl.
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Cream sugar and butter in a large bowl with an electric blender until light and fluffy; stir in 1 teaspoon orange extract. Mix baking soda into applesauce and stir into butter mixture.
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Add flour mixture and mix until batter is smooth. Pour batter into the prepared loaf pans.
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Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a loaf comes out clean for 40 to 50 minutes. Remove from pan and cool on a wire rack until cool for about 1 hour.
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Combine cream cheese, vanilla extract, and ½ teaspoon orange extract in a bowl; beat with an electric mixer until well combined.
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Beat in confectioners’ sugar gradually. Spread frosting over cooled loaves. Decorate with crystallized ginger.
Nutrition
- Calories: 2226.44kcal
- Fat: 86.17g
- Saturated Fat: 51.29g
- Trans Fat: 1.86g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 21.82g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 3.82g
- Carbohydrates: 356.04g
- Fiber: 6.19g
- Sugar: 273.92g
- Protein: 17.52g
- Cholesterol: 246.75mg
- Sodium: 1541.44mg
- Calcium: 185.36mg
- Potassium: 430.52mg
- Iron: 5.99mg
- Vitamin A: 805.39µg
- Vitamin C: 27.48mg
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