Irish spice bread with whiskey glaze
Bread
Craving something sweeter than soda bread and perhaps convinced I could reap the luck of the Irish through baking, I stumbled on a recipe for arán spíosraí (Irish spice bread) at Irishabroad.com . A subsequent search for variations proved fruitless. Countless aggregate recipe sites, Irish or otherwise, listed recipes for arán spíosraí, but with minor exceptions, they were all the same. I wondered, "What if arán spíosraí is a mythical creation like the Leprechaun?" <br /> <br />The pronounced sweetness in this “bread” pushes it closer to the cake category though with half the fat of most cakes. None of the recipes I found suggested a frosting, but the dry crumb of this intensely flavored bread-cake called for a little something creamy. If you’re not a fan of whiskey, make the glaze with orange juice and double the amount of vanilla extract. Or skip the frosting and slather it with some Kerrygold butter instead. Éirinn go brách! <br /> <br />
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