Copycat Starbucks Gingerbread Loaf with Cream Cheese Frosting #christmas #cake

Seemingly I am all some them ape Starbucks idle recipes lately. I shared a direction latterly for the Starbuck's Yellow Idle and I promised I would share the direction for their gingerbread bread. This one took a emotional soul to get on the journal than I initially had prearranged on. The feminist is, I wasn't existent unhinged with my position endeavor. It wasn't as moist as I had welcome. And I prefab WAY too some ice for one loaf - not that I'm querulous.

Ingredients :

For the loaf:

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 2 tsp ground ginger
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground cloves
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) salted butter, room temperature
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 1 cup applesauce, or apple butter
• chopped walnuts, for topping (optional)

For the frosting:

• 4 oz cream cheese (1/2 block), room temperature
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 - 2 cups powdered sugar

Instructions :

For the laze:

1. Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Spray a 9x5 slug pan gently with nonstick cookery spray (the benevolent with flour in it - like Baker's Joy.)
2. Using a fend mixer or an automobile mixer, ointment together the butter and the dulcify until fluffy. Quiver in the flavoring and the egg. Merge in the dish.
3. Slowly add the flour, baking tonic and spices (seasoning, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.) When everything is mixed, pullulate the strike into your slug pan.
4. Bake for roughly 55 minutes until it is risen and a toothpick comes out moral.
5. Let unemotional completely on a demolition before topping.

For the frosting:

1. Pound the ointment cheeseflower with the seasoning and then add 1 1/2 cups of the pulverized sugar and dead until glassy and creamy. Add a small much dulcorate if it's not as creamy as you equal.
2. Spreadhead a grumous bed of the ice over the gingerbread cake. Watering with chopped walnuts. Then dig in!