How To Make Gingerbread Loaf Cake
Feel the holiday spirit with a classic gingerbread recipe! Every slice of this loaf cake is packed with the flavors of cinnamon, ginger, and cloves.
Serves:
Ingredients
- ½cupunsalted butter,softened
- ½cupbrown sugar,packed
- ½cupmolasses
- 1tspvanilla
- 2large eggs
- 1cupflour
- 1cupwhole wheat flour
- 1tspbaking soda
- 2tspground cinnamon
- 2tspground ginger
- 1tspground cloves
- ½tspsalt
- 1cupbuttermilk
- 1tbspcoarse sanding sugar
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and spray a 9×5-inch baking pan with baking spray.
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In a stand mixer, cream the butter and brown sugar together until light and fluffy.
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Add in the molasses and eggs until well blended (molasses will make the mixture grainy, don’t worry about this).
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Sift together whole wheat flour, flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and salt.
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Add the dry ingredients and buttermilk, alternating half and half to the stand mixer on the lowest speed until just combined.
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Add the mixture to the loaf pan and spread evenly, then sprinkle with coarse sanding sugar.
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Bake for 50 to 55 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Nutrition
- Calories: 231.09kcal
- Fat: 9.05g
- Saturated Fat: 5.31g
- Trans Fat: 0.31g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 2.39g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.63g
- Carbohydrates: 34.37g
- Fiber: 1.68g
- Sugar: 18.54g
- Protein: 4.26g
- Cholesterol: 52.15mg
- Sodium: 189.27mg
- Calcium: 75.24mg
- Potassium: 313.81mg
- Iron: 1.46mg
- Vitamin A: 80.97µg
- Vitamin C: 0.22mg
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