Gingerbread bread. Full of warming spices with cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, and cloves. Great toasted with tea or coffee. Vegan Recipe. Jump to Recipe
GingerBread cookies or GingerBread Bread 🙂 I made the bread! The bread had a tad more water than required and I was feeling lazy to add more flour and keep it for another rise.. so it deflated a bit. But a bread is a bread! a bit denser but still a bread!
Gingerbread Bread
Gingerbread bread. Full of warming spices with cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, and cloves. Great toasted with tea or coffee. Vegan Recipe.
Prep Time30 mins
Cook Time40 mins
Total Time1 hr 10 mins
Servings: 10 servings
Calories: 217kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup (125 g) bread flour
- 3-4 cups (360 g) whole wheat flour
- 1 cup (250 ml) water
- 2 tablespoons oil or vegan butter
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon molasses
- 2 inch piece of fresh ginger
- 1 teaspoon ginger powder
- 1/4 teaspoon (0.25 teaspoon) cinnamon powder
- 1/4 teaspoon (0.25 teaspoon) ground nutmeg
- pinch of clove powder
- pinch of cardamom powder
- 2 teaspoons active yeast
Instructions
- Warm half a cup of water and add sugar and yeast to it. Mix well
- Let it sit for 10 minutes or until frothy.
- In a blender, blend the ginger with a little water, spices and molasses and keep aside.
- In a greased mixing bowl, add the flours, salt and mix well.
- Add the oil, yeast mixture, ginger mixture and and knead for 8-10 minutes. ( if using stand mixer, 3-4 minute batches with intermittent scraping)
- Add more water if needed.
- Place dough in a well greased container, covered in a warm place for 2 hours.
- Lightly punch the dough and using a little flour knead and shape into a loaf by pulling on all sides and tucking under.
- Place loaf in well oiled bread pan and cover with damp towel. Let rise for an hour.
- Bake at 375 degrees F for about 40 minutes.
- Cool completely before slicing!
Notes
- Total time does not include 3 hours proving time
- Nutritional value is based on 1 serving
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Gingerbread Bread
Amount Per Serving
Calories 217 Calories from Fat 36
% Daily Value*
Fat 4g6%
Sodium 237mg10%
Potassium 201mg6%
Carbohydrates 40g13%
Fiber 4g17%
Sugar 4g4%
Protein 7g14%
Calcium 18mg2%
Iron 1.6mg9%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Laura says
December 12, 2018 at 10:29 pmRicha! I am so excited to see this yeast bread recipe. I want to try it as soon as possible, I AM SO EXCITED! (sorry, forgive the caps.
You published this in 2010, I will come back and rate this wonderful looking bread. I am GF so I will prolly do a GF version for myself, but I am going to make this recipe as is. You are so wonderful. ThANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO. …..uh-oh