recipe
Gingerbread Quick Bread
by Brava Chef Erin
About this Recipe
This gingerbread quick bread is sure to get you into the holiday spirit. Loaded with warm Christmas spices and topped with a sweet and creamy cream cheese frosting, it’s the perfect treat for a cold winter day. Not to mention, your house will smell like Christmas while it bakes in Brava!
Ingredients
- None
- 1.5 cups All-purpose flour
- 2.25 teaspoons Ground ginger
- 1.25 teaspoons Cinnamon
- 0.75 teaspoons Baking powder
- Kosher Salt
- 0.25 teaspoons Nutmeg
- 0.25 teaspoons Ground cloves
- 0.3333333333333333 cups Molasses
- 0.5 cups Water
- 0.75 teaspoons Baking soda
- 0.75 cups Brown sugar
- 2.0 count Egg
- 14.0 tablespoons Melted Butter
- None
- Butter
- 4.0 tablespoons Cream cheese
- 1.0 cups Powdered sugar
- 0.5 teaspoons Vanilla extract
- 1.0 tablespoons Cranberries
- 1.0 tablespoons Candied ginger
- Cooking Spray
- Kosher Salt
Equipment
Brava loaf pan
mixing bowls
stand mixer (optional)
wire cooling rack
spatula
Nutrition Information
Allergens: None
Instructions
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1
Make batter
- In medium bowl, stir together flour, ground ginger, cinnamon, baking powder, kosher salt, nutmeg and cloves; set aside.
- In small bowl, whisk together molasses, ½ cup of water and baking soda.
- In bowl of stand mixer fitted with whisk attachment, whip brown sugar and eggs together on high speed until mixture is light in color, about 3 minutes. Stop mixer and scrape down bowl with spatula.
- On low speed, using paddle attachment slowly add melted butter until combined.
- Add ⅓ of flour mixture until combined, then ⅓ of liquid mixture. Repeat until flour and liquid mixtures are fully incorporated.
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2
Pour batter into pan
- Lightly butter or spray Brava loaf pan.
- Add batter to loaf pan.
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3
Bake bread
- Press green button to begin preheating Brava.
- When Brava is preheated, slide loaf pan into top shelf. Press green button to begin baking.
- When your food is done, transfer loaf pan to wire rack and let cool completely before serving.
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4
Make cream cheese frosting
- While cake is cooling, make frosting.
- In bowl of stand mixer fitted with whisk attachment, whip together butter and cream cheese on medium speed for two minutes. Stop mixer and scrape down bowl and whisk with spatula.
- On low speed, slowly add powdered sugar, vanilla and a pinch of kosher salt until combined.
- Turn speed to high and whip for 3 minutes.
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5
Finish and serve
- Carefully remove gingerbread from loaf pan.
- Frost gingerbread loaf with cream cheese frosting.
- Garnish with dried cranberries and slices of candied ginger and serve.