Copycat Starbucks Gingerbread Loaf
You can now have this delicious loaf at home, Copycat Starbucks Gingerbread Loaf.
Servings: 4 mini loaves
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. ground cloves
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1/2 tablespoon fresh ginger finely grated
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup apple sauce
- 1/2 cup sour cream
Frosting
- 1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups icing sugar
- Candied ginger chopped in small squares
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease four mini loaf pans 6x3x2" with cooking spray.
- In a medium bowl whisk together the dry ingredients. Set aside. In the bowl of a standup mixer with a paddle attachment cream butter and sugars together. Add eggs one at a time and mix well. Add the apple sauce and sour cream. Add the flour mixture slowly mixing well.
- Pour batter into prepared pans and bake for 30 min. or until a cake tester comes out clean.
- Cool for 5 minutes and then remove from pan, cool completely on racks.
- For the frosting, beat the cream cheese with a hand mixer until soft and light. Add the vanilla and slowly add 1/2 cup of icing sugar at a time and blend in. Spread the icing on top of the cakes and decorate with the candied ginger.