Pain d’épices (Spiced Sweet Bread). Pain d’épices or pain d’épice (French for ‘“spice bread”’, loosely translated as gingerbread) is a French cake or quick bread. French spice cake, pain d’epices is a classic loaf and easy to make. Kind of a cross between a cake and a bread clever French hosts (and hostesses…and probably everyone in between) will cut them in But pain d’épices is a French classic and no one seems to mind the aromatic mélange of spices.
French pain d’épices often gets mistranslated into English as “gingerbread,” but beyond being heavily spiced and sweet, the two cakes bear little resemblance to one another. While the flavor of American gingerbread is dominated by molasses and the eponymous ginger, pain d’épices features rye flour. A classic French spice bread, this pain d’epices is made with the traditional rye flour and a warming blend of ground spices sweetened with honey. You can cook Pain d’épices (Spiced Sweet Bread) using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Pain d’épices (Spiced Sweet Bread)
- Prepare 1/2 cup of + 1/3 cup (200ml) water.
- Prepare 1/3 cup (125 g) of honey.
- You need 1 tsp of baking soda.
- It’s 2 cups (250 g) of flour.
- You need 1/3 cup (55 g) of sugar.
- Prepare 1 Tbsp of anise seeds.
Pain d’epices recipe takes the cake (pardon the pun) for sheer aromatic deliciousness. Open that oven door and we promise the aroma of ginger, cloves. Spread cream on bottom of glass in an even layer and add a quarter of spice bread and cover with a layer of pear and finish with remaining spice bread. Garnish with candied ginger slices and serve.
Pain d’épices (Spiced Sweet Bread) instructions
- Preheart your oven to 300°F/150°C..
- Place water, honey and baking soda in a small pan. If you have a food scale it is easy to weigh 125g of your honey when you put the pan directly on the scale. This also reduces cleanup..
- Bring ingredients to a boil over medium heat. Remove from heat and add the rest of ingredients. Mix them all..
- Bake about 50 minutes or until the bread is done. Remove from your oven and enjoy with a cup of hot milk tea!.
- I added cinnamon, nutmeg, marmalade and cranberries this time for my husband. Yum yum :).
Pain d’Épices (adapted from A Baker’s Tour by Nick Malgieri). Pain d’epices has so many memories for me in Alsace where I lived and there are so many derivative desserts you can make with the combination of spices in this wonderful bread with,(though dry mustard seems rather odd? Maelle & Richard bake a French classic, the Pain D’Épices, which is a delicious loaf cake made with honey and Christmassy spices. Pain d’epices, a French bread with spices [. - ]. Remove from the heat and let cool a little before stirring in the flour, orange zest, and spices.