Easy Gingerbread Loaf
Servings: 12 slices
Ingredients
- 1 cup (250 mls) buttermilk (alternatively use 1 cup of milk and 2 tbsp of apple cider vinegar or white vinegar and set aside until the milk appears chunky)
- 115 grams softened butter
- ½ cup brown sugar (100 grams)
- ½ cup molasses (or golden syrup)
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups plain flour (300 grams)
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 3 tsp ginger
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- ½ tsp salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 175℃.
- Prepare you loaf tin (9” x 5” or 23cm x 13cm).
- Prepare the buttermilk/sour milk, and set aside.
- Sift the dry flour, baking soda, ginger, nutmeg and salt into a large mixing bowl, and set aside.
- Cream the butter and brown sugar until smooth and pale.
- Pour in the molasses and beat until rich in colour.
- Add the egg and beat again.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the mixing bowl, alternating between the creamed molasses and buttermilk.Use your dough whisk to bring it all together into a wet mixture.
- Once the mixture comes together, pour into your prepared loaf tin and bake for 45 minutes.
- Let the loaf cool for 10 minutes in the loaf tin before tipping onto a cooling rack.
- Allow the loaf to cool completely before cutting.