Ontbijtkoek (Peperkoek) (Dutch Gingerbread Spice Bread)
Making your own Dutch ontbijtkoek, a sweet gingerbread, is a really easy recipe. Only 6 ingredients that you mix within five minutes and then bake in the oven. This moist gingerbread, Dutch origin, with whole wheat flour is light and delicious. The best recipe out there for sweet quick bread!
Ingredients
- 1 egg large
- 1 tablespoon Dutch sugar syrup
- 1 cup water
- 1 tablespoon speculaas spice mix
- 1¼ cups dark brown sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1¾ teaspoons baking powder
Ingredients you need per step are listed below the step in Italic
Instructions
Bake your cake
- Preheat oven to
375 °F or 
340 °F and line a loaf pan (10 inches) with parchment paper. - Put the egg, syrup, water, spices, and brown sugar in a bowl. Whisk until everything is dissolved.1 egg, 1 tablespoon Dutch sugar syrup, 1 cup water, 1 tablespoon speculaas spice mix, 1¼ cups dark brown sugar
- Add the flour and the baking powder into the bowl and mix all the ingredients until the flour is wet. It doesn’t matter if there are some lumps left.2 cups all-purpose flour, 1¾ teaspoons baking powder
- Pour into the baking tin and bake in the oven for 70 minutes.
- To check if the sweet bread is done, stick a wooden skewer or toothpick into the middle. If it comes out clean, the sweet bread is ready.
- Take the cake out of the oven, allow to cool in the tin for 5 minutes.
- After 5 minutes, take the cake out of the pan and let the cake cool down on a wire rack to room temperature before serving.
NOTES
1. Flour: Instead of flour and baking powder, you can also use self-raising flour (2 cups / 250 grams).
2. Dutch sugar syrup: This is a dark sugar syrup that in the Netherlands is used to top pancakes. You can also use 1 tablespoon of honey or 1 tablespoon of maple syrup in this recipe instead.
3. Soft top: If you want a soft top, place baking paper on the cake, so that you cover the batter.
4. Also delicious:
- Add currants, raisins, or walnuts for even more flavor (2 oz. (50 grams) of dried fruit / 1 oz. (25 grams) of finely chopped nuts).
- 2 oz. (50 grams) of finely chopped chocolate.
- Room temperature: Wrap in plastic foil or store in an airtight container for up to three days.
- Freezer: Wrap in aluminum foil (double wrap) and store up to 1 month in the freezer. Let thaw at room temperature.
Nutrition
Calories: 215kcal | Carbohydrates: 50g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 0.2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Trans Fat: 0.002g | Cholesterol: 16mg | Sodium: 18mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 29g | Vitamin A: 49IU | Vitamin C: 0.03mg | Iron: 2mg
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