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Gingerbead Loaf with Orange Icing. Old-fashioned, moist gingerbread loaf cake with a sophisticated orange icing drizzled on top. Place the butter, sugar, golden syrup and black treacle into a pan and heat. Traditionally where I grew up gingerbread cake is eaten with good salty butter.

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Gingerbead Loaf with Orange Icing As for the spices, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove are common, but you can alter the proportions to suit your taste. This recipe leaves out the clove for a milder taste. Finally, the sweet tangy notes of cream cheese frosting adds a decadent touch to this simple cake, but a plain icing or powdered sugar will work fine if you'd like to lighten it up. You can have Gingerbead Loaf with Orange Icing using 16 ingredients or wanting. Here is how you achieve that.

The main ingredient Gingerbead Loaf with Orange Icing

  1. Prepare 2 cups of all purpose flour.
  2. Provide 1 tsp. of baking soda.
  3. Provide 1 1/2 tsp. of ground ginger.
  4. You need 1 1/2 tsp. of ground cinnamon.
  5. You need 1/4 tsp. of ground cloves.
  6. Provide 1/4 tsp. of salt.
  7. Provide 1/8 tsp. of black pepper.
  8. Prepare 3/4 cup of unsulphured or dark molasses.
  9. You need 3/4 cup of hot water.
  10. You need 1/2 cup (1 stick) of unsalted butter, softened to room temperature.
  11. You need 1/3 cup of brown sugar (light or dark fine).
  12. You need 1 of large egg, at room temperature.
  13. You need 1 tsp. of vanilla extract.
  14. Provide of Orange Icing :.
  15. You need 1 cup of confectioners' sugar, sifted.
  16. Provide 2-3 tbsp. of orange juice.

This Gingerbread Loaf is a spiced ginger loaf topped with cream cheese icing and makes a perfect treat for Christmas entertaining and gift giving. I want to talk a bit about this gingerbread loaf, which gave me a hard time until I got it just right. Making the icing for this Gingerbread loaf really is very easy. Let me first share with you that it is more of a orange glaze rather than a royal icings that you will find on many gingerbread cookies.

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Gingerbead Loaf with Orange Icing instructions

  1. Adjust your oven rack to the lower third position and preheat the oven to 350 F. Grease a 9x5" loaf pan and set aside..
  2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, salt and pepper. Set aside..
  3. In a small bowl, whisk the molasses and hot water together. Set aside..
  4. In a large bowl, using a hand held mixer (or stand mixer with paddle attachment), beat the butter on high speed until it is smooth and creamy...about 1 minute. Add the brown sugar and beat until they are creamed together, about 1 minute more. Beat in the egg and vanilla until combined..
  5. With the mixer on low speed, start to add the dry ingredients. Alternate between adding the dry and adding the hot water and molasses mixture. Mix until just incorporated. Batter will be very thin. Avoid overmixing..
  6. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake around 50-60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out mostly clean, with just a few moist crumbs..
  7. Place the pan on a wire rack and allow the loaf to cool completely in the pan, before removing and icing..
  8. To make the icing : Simply whisk together the sifted confectioners' sugar and the orange juice. Once the loaf is completely cooled, drizzle the icing over the top of the loaf..
  9. Store covered in the fridge for up to 5 days. If not frosting, then it can be stored at room temperature..
  10. This recipe can also be made into muffins. Fill greased or lined muffin tins up 2/3 of the way with the batter. Bake for 20-22 minutes, until toothpick comes out mostly clean with just a few moist crumbs. Cool completely before drizzling the glaze over them..

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