Best Loaf Cakes. Sometimes a smaller cake serves your needs better than a full sized dessert. These are great for weekday dessert, snacks, packed lunches or gift giving at any time of year.
Best Loaf Cakes.
These best loaf cakes recipes prove that sometimes smaller is better, especially when it comes to dessert.
My personal take on dessert is to have a little, enjoy it, and what’s left, I generally pass on to the the leftover list! Generally friends and family are the lucky recipients of my sweet excesses.
For smaller families and couples, I can understand not wanting to have a lot of these sorts of leftovers. Overindulgence is generally what happens around here at least.
So yes, sometimes smaller is better. These recipes are perfect for gift giving too. We sometimes bring them as hostess gifts or in the case of fruitcakes, for Holiday gift giving too!
I hope you try a few of them and especially share them with friends and family too.
Best Loaf Cakes
Lemon Poppy Seed Loaf Cake. With lemon glaze! This tender cake gets added moistness from a quick cooked glaze that gets brushed on while the cake is still hot. You won't find a more lemony version than this.
A different mango and spice twist on a traditional banana bread. A great addition to packed lunches or as an afternoon snack. Makes a terrific bake sale contribution too.
Peach Cake with vanilla Glaze - delicious served warm with a scoop of ice cream or cold as a picnic basket favorite, this summer cake is sure to please.
Strawberry Banana Bread - a good, old-fashioned banana bread recipe with an extra flavourful twist of having fresh strawberry chunks baked right in.
The Best Pumpkin Bread is Mom's super easy recipe that's over 40 years old and still my favourite ever.
Fruitcake Loaf Cake. A richly flavoured cream cheese batter is the star of this quick, easy fruitcake in a smaller loaf size for those who don't want or need a large fruitcake.
Chocolate Orange Banana Bread with White Chocolate Chunks. Definitely not your Grandma’s banana bread!
This moist, spice-less fruitcake is one of our family favorites. It is not nearly as heavily flavored as dark fruitcake. Since no spices or molasses are used this cake relies purely on the flavor of the dried fruits.
Raspberries and Cream Cake - bursts of fresh raspberries baked into a tender loaf cake with the added richness of cream in the batter and finished with raspberry glaze.
Apricot Raisin Cake is one of the most popular seasonal cake recipes here in Newfoundland during the Holidays, but it is easy enough to be enjoyed any time of year.
Newfoundland Cherry Cake is a big local favourite especially during the Holidays. The secret in this recipe is undiluted evaporated milk for added richness.
Orange Raisin Five Spice Banana Bread - what a wonderful combination of flavours in this heavenly scented banana bread. Another great use for ripe bananas.
Orange Glazed Pound Cake. Nothing says simple home baked goodness like a really well made pound cake and this orange glazed pound cake is a terrific example.
Glazed Lemon Pound Cake - an old fashioned favourite, just like grandma used to bake, complete with a thick layer of sweet, tangy lemon glaze. Perfect with an afternoon cup of tea.
Raisin Tea Loaf. A real old fashioned recipe for raisin tea loaf, where tea is used both in the batter and to soak the raisins. Try it with other dried fruit like dates too.
Toffee Pecan Banana Bread. Old fashioned, moist delicious banana bread with the addition of crunchy pecans and toffee chips. Perfect for lunchboxes, coffee breaks or a grab and go breakfast.
Date Nut Bread - this old fashioned favourite is just like your grandmother would make. It's easy, tender, moist and delicious, and even better the next day.
Mom's Old Fashioned Banana Bread - A 40 year old, unfussy family recipe that turns out great, moist banana bread every time.
Gumdrop Cake. A dense buttery pound cake packed with brilliantly coloured morsels of gumdrop candy. It's very popular during the Holidays or as a birthday cake here in Newfoundland
Cherry Pecan Cake - A Moist delicious cream cheese pound cake with maraschino cherries and crunchy pecans baked right in.
Like these best loaf cakes recipes?
You might also like to try some of our very popular recipes in our Best Newfoundland Christmas Cookies Collection. They are definitely worth making at any time of year!
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