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.
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. Pain d’epices recipe takes the cake (pardon the pun) for sheer aromatic deliciousness. You can cook Pain d’épices (Spiced Sweet Bread) using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Pain d’épices (Spiced Sweet Bread)
- You need 1/2 cup of + 1/3 cup (200ml) water.
- Prepare 1/3 cup (125 g) of honey.
- It’s 1 tsp of baking soda.
- You need 2 cups (250 g) of flour.
- Prepare 1/3 cup (55 g) of sugar.
- You need 1 Tbsp of anise seeds.
Open that oven door and we promise the aroma of ginger, cloves. Remove from the heat and let cool a little before stirring in the flour, orange zest, and spices. Half-fill the prepared loaf pan with the batter. Pain D’epices is a French sweet quickbread, with plenty of spices and honey.
Pain d’épices (Spiced Sweet Bread) step by step
- 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 :).
A traditional recipe for Christmas time, this version is Pain D’epices is a French quick bread that’s sweetened only with honey. Traditionally, it includes some amount of rye flour. This is a fairly non-traditional version that. A hearty paleo and gluten-free French spice bread with an aromatic blend of seasonal spices reminiscent of gingerbread. Pain d’Épices (adapted from A Baker’s Tour by Nick Malgieri).