Gingerbread Mini Loaf Cakes with Lemon Glaze

Don’t let the simplicity of these cakes fool you! These Gingerbread Mini Loaf Cakes with Lemon Glaze are filled with all of the flavors of Christmas! Add these festive cakes to your holiday dessert table this season. Also, if you are looking for a nice homemade gift for friends and neighbors this Christmas, these cakes would be perfect!

What creates the flavors of gingerbread in these mini loaf cakes?

Gingerbread is not just a single flavor but usually includes a combination of winter spices, ginger, and molasses to create the flavor that we all know and love as gingerbread! For this cake, we wanted to keep the flavors fairly straightforward and simply used ground ginger, dark brown sugar, and molasses. The cake is not overpowering with spices which can often be off-putting in some gingerbread cookie or cake recipes. This version is true to its gingerbread name, but isn’t going to send you on a spice dive. We know you will love it!

Making the Lemon Glaze

The lemon glaze is a very simple recipe that can be used on a variety of cakes and cookies, but really complements these Gingerbread Mini Loaf Cakes. Adding lemon juice to confectioners sugar (powdered sugar) results in a nice thick icing or glaze. We like to keep our glaze on the thicker side so that it looks like snow cover the cakes, but you can easily modify the glaze to a thinner consistency by adding more lemon, or a splash of milk.

Enjoy!

We hope you enjoy this recipe for Gingerbread Mini Loaf Cakes with Lemon Glaze this holiday season! If you give these a try, leave us a comment below or tag us on Instagram @cooking_with_wine!

Looking for more holiday recipes? Check these out!

• Peppermint Chocolate Bourbon Bundtlettes
• Brown Butter and Pecan Rum Cake
• Hazelnut Hot Buttered Rum – A Holiday Treat
• Brown Butter Cardamom Linzer Cookies with Passion Fruit Jelly

Gingerbread Mini Loaf Cakes with Lemon Glaze

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Recipe by Vanessa, Mark and Angela Course: DessertCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: Easy

Makes

4

Mini Loaf Cakes

Prep time

15

minutes

Cooking time

50

minutes

Total time

1

hour 

5

minutes

Ingredients

• For the Mini Loaf Cakes

• 2 cups all-purpose flour

• 4 tsp ground ginger

• 1 tsp baking soda

• 1/2 cup plus 1 tbsp whole milk

• 1/2 cup vegetable oil

• 1/2 cup dark muscovado sugar (or dark brown sugar)

• 5 tbsp light corn syrup

• 5 tbsp molasses

• 1 large egg

• For the icing

• 1 1/4 cups confection sugar, sifted

• 4 to 5 tsp fresh lemon juice (2-3 lemons needed)

• Garnish

• Zest of 1-2 lemons

Directions

• Preheat the oven to 325F
• Sift the flour and ginger together into a large mixing bowl and set side.
• Measure 1 tablespoon of the milk into a small bowl and stir in the baking soda
• Pour the remaining milk, along with the oil, sugar, corn syrup and molasses into a bowl and stir to combine thoroughly. Next pour the liquid mixture into the dry flour mixture and add the egg followed by the milk and baking soda mixture.
• Mix thoroughly into a smooth, thick batter.
• Grease your mini loaf pans (we use Baker’s Joy), or brush with butter and line with parchment for easy removal.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake for 50 to 60 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Let your mini loaf cakes cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then turn the cakes out and transfer to a wired cooling rack to cool completely,
• Finally, mix the confectioners’ sugar with enough lemon juice to make a thick pouring consistency.
• Once the cake is cool, drizzle the icing over the cake to finish and add the zest for garnish.