Ginger and Lemon Loaf Recipe
🕒 Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
🥄 Yield: 1 Loaf
🍽 Category: Breads
🔍 Keywords: Dessert, Fruit, Healthy, Kid Friendly, Potluck, Spicy, Weeknight, Oven, Beginner Cook, Freezer, < 4 Hours, Easy
Description:
This delightful Ginger and Lemon Loaf fills your kitchen with a wonderful aroma while baking. Perfect for packing in lunch boxes or bringing along to a picnic, this loaf also freezes well, making it a convenient treat to have on hand.
Ingredients:
- 360g cake flour
- 275g caster sugar
- 10g baking powder
- 10g ground ginger
- 3g salt
- Zest of 2 lemons
- 75g butter
- 200ml skim milk
- 1 egg
- 10ml vanilla essence
- 175g applesauce
- Juice of 1 lemon
- Lemon slices (for topping)
Instructions:
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Preheat the oven to 180ºC (350ºF) and spray a medium-sized loaf pan with non-stick spray.
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Sift the cake flour, caster sugar, baking powder, ground ginger, and salt together in a large bowl.
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Stir in the lemon zest.
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Dice the butter and rub it into the flour mixture until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
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In a separate bowl, beat together the skim milk, egg, vanilla essence, lemon juice, and applesauce until well combined.
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Add the wet ingredients to the flour mixture and mix until smooth.
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Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan.
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Arrange lemon slices on top of the batter.
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Bake for about 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean. If the top starts to brown too quickly, cover the loaf with aluminum foil after about an hour to prevent burning.
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Allow the loaf to cool in the pan for about 10 minutes before turning it out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Enjoy this flavorful Ginger and Lemon Loaf with a cup of tea or pack it up for a delicious addition to your next picnic or lunchbox!
