Sourdough Gingerbread Loaf Cake
This delicious spiced gingerbread cake can be baked in a loaf pan or sheet pan. Top it with the sweet vanilla cream cheese frosting for the ultimate gingerbread experience!
Servings 10 slices
Equipment
- Loaf Pan (24cm x 14cm or 9.5" x 5.5")
Ingredients
- 110 g Butter (softened at room temp)
- 100 g White Sugar
- 100 g Brown Sugar (light or dark is fine)
- 5 g Vanilla Extract
- 1 Egg
- 250 g Apple Sauce (unsweetened or use apple butter)
- 150 g Sourdough Starter (or sourdough discard)
- 200 g All Purpose Flour
- 5 g Baking Soda
- 5 g Baking Powder
- 3 teaspoon Ginger (ground)
- 2 teaspoon Cinnamon (ground)
- ½ teaspoon Cloves (ground)
- ½ teaspoon Nutmeg (ground)
Vanilla Frosting (Optional)
- 125 g Cream Cheese (softened at room temp)
- 75 g Butter (softened at room temp)
- 220 g Powdered Sugar
- 5 g Vanilla Extract
- 50 g Pecans (chopped) - optional topping
Instructions
- Preheat oven 180C (350F). Grease a loaf pan with butter or cooking spray and set aside.
- Grab a large mixing bowl. Using a whisk, cream together the butter, brown sugar and white sugar.
- Now, add the vanilla extract, egg and unsweetened apple sauce to the bowl and whisk until well combined.
- Now add the sourdough starter and whisk it through. The mixture will become thick and marshmallowy.
- Lastly, add the flour, baking soda, baking powder and spices into the bowl and use a spatula to gently fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. You don't want to over mix the batter.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared loaf pan and smooth the top, ensuring the batter is evenly distributed.
- Bake for around an hour at 180C (350F) or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Once the sourdough gingerbread is done, remove from the oven and allow it to cool in the pan for around 10 minutes before inverting onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- While the sourdough gingerbread loaf cake is cooling, add all of the frosting ingredients to a bowl and whisk together until light and fluffy (you can use electric beaters if you want to make it easier). Spread onto cooled loaf cake and top with chopped pecans.
