Mini Orange Spice Loaves
Warm spices and orange zest come together in these tender mini loaves. Spread with fluffy orange buttercream and serve with your favourite tea.
Servings: 8 loaves
Calories: 500kcal
Equipment
- mini loaf pan , 150 ml capacity for each loaf
- bowl
- Oven
- wire rack
- electric mixer
Ingredients
For the loaves
- 1 cup plain flour
- 1 cup self-raising flour
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp mixed spice
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 175 g butter , melted
- ⅔ cup honey
- 1 tbsp finely grated orange rind
- ½ cup orange juice
- 1 egg , lightly beaten
For the orange buttercream
- 125 g unsalted butter , softened
- 1 ¼ cups icing sugar
- 1 ½ tbsps finely grated orange rind
To decorate
- Shredded orange rind , extra, to decorate
Instructions
- Grease an 8-hole mini loaf pan.
- Sift flours, cinnamon, mixed spice and sugar in a bowl.
- Stir in butter, then honey, rind, juice and egg.
- Mix until combined.
- Divide mixture evenly among prepared pan holes.
- Cook in a 160 C oven for 30 mins.
- Stand loaves in pan for 5 mins.
- Turn out onto wire rack.
- To prepare cream, beat all ingredients in bowl with electric mixer until light and fluffy.
- Spread cream over top of loaves.
- Decorate with extra rind.