Gingerbread Streusel Mini Loaves

Gingerbread Streusel Mini Loaves puts vanilla extract, ground cinnamon and ground ginger at the center of a quick-bread recipe and finishes in about 55 minutes, enough for 3 mini loaves.

• Yield 3 mini loaves
• Ready in 55 minutes
• Prep 30 minutes
• Cook 25 minutes

Ingredients

Bread

• ½ cup ( 98 g ) neutral-flavored oil (like canola, vegetable, grapeseed)
• ½ cup ( 121 g ) buttermilk
• ¾ cup ( 159 g ) packed light brown sugar
• ¼ cup ( 85 g ) unsulphured molasses
• 2 large ( 100 g ) eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 ½ cups ( 213 g ) all-purpose flour (see UPDATED note!)
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 ½ teaspoons ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
• ¼ teaspoon ground allspice

Streusel

• ¼ cup ( 36 g ) all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoon packed brown sugar
• ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons butter, softened
• ¼ cup ( 30-40 g ) finely chopped pecans

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease three mini loaf pans (5.75X3-inches). Set aside.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together oil, buttermilk, brown sugar, molasses, eggs and vanilla until well-combined.
3. Add the flour, cinnamon, ginger, baking powder, baking powder, salt, cloves and allspice. Mix until ingredients evenly combined and no dry streaks remain (don't over mix).
4. Spread the batter evenly among the prepared pans (if you live at high altitude, you may want to split the batter among four pans to avoid spilling over in the oven). Place the mini loaf pans on a foil-lined baking sheet. This isn't mandatory, but it does help catch the streusel if a tiny bit spills off as the bread rises and bakes in the oven.
5. For the streusel, in a small bowl, whisk together the flour, granulated sugar, brown sugar and cinnamon. Cut the butter into pieces, add to the dry ingredients, and use a pastry blender or two butter knives to cut in the butter until it is in very small pieces and the mixture is crumbly. Stir in the pecans.
6. Sprinkle about 1/4 cup streusel over each loaf.
7. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes (may need to add additional time - keep a close eye on the bread) until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean or with moist crumbs. Add additional baking time, if needed.
8. Cool for a few minutes in the pan before lifting carefully out of the pan onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Cool the bake on a rack until the crumb sets, then slice.