Pain d’epices Recipe – French Spice Bread
A classic French spice bread, this pain d'epices recipe is made with rye flour and a warming blend of ground spices sweetened with honey. Learn how to make your very own pain d'epice cake at home.
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Ingredients
Instructions
Start by preheating your oven to 150˚C (300˚F), then line a loaf pan with baking paper or grease with butter.
Pop your rye flour into a large mixing bowl along with the ground ginger, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg, baking soda and baking powder. Pour in the honey, give it a quick stir with a spoon, then blend using a handheld beater or stand mixer with paddle attachment on low speed.
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Tips
The dough mixture for pain d’epices will be quite runny compared with normal dough – falling somewhere between a true sticky dough and cake batter. This is totally fine!
You can subtly alter the flavour of your pain d’epice depending on the style of honey you use. We recommend using high quality organic honey and rye flour. for the best flavour.
For the ideal moist texture watch your baking time and don’t overcook, or your spice bread may turn out dry and crumbly.
FAQs
What to serve with pain d’epices? Pain d’epices is often traditionally served as an accompaniment to other French delicacies such as foie gras. But for a simple dessert or afternoon tea, you can enjoy it warmed up or cold, all on its own, or with a slice of melty butter. Délicieux!
How to store pain d’epices? To keep your finished spice bread fresh and stop it drying out, wrap in a clean towel or greaseproof paper once baked.
Variations & Substitutes
To add a gorgeous glaze to your spice bread, cover with orange syrup or marmalade before baking.
You can use regular flour in a pinch, it will just alter the the texture and flavour slightly, but should still cook fine.
If you’re out of honey, you can substitute with maple syrup or golden syrup.
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Reviews from the Original Source
Used penzeys pie spice as a 1 to 1 substitute and it was delicious. Easy and simple recipe.
This is delicious. Baking a loaf for a friend as I write this. The only problem I've been having is that I need to bake it for about an hour and 10 minutes. I know my oven is not off that much as I have no issues with anything else I bake. Today I even raised the temperature to 325 F and it still is not done by 45 minutes. It's worth the wait though!
Just made this today! Kitchen smelled wonderful! I know it might be strange to bake this warm spicy cake in a tropical country but I really wanted to eat and smell this cake haha. Thank you for sharing this lovely recipe 😍
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