Mango Gingerbread with Macadamia Streusel

Gingerbread in June? You betcha. This isn't a holiday sort of cake in any sense. When I spotted this recipe in an old Bon Appetit, I tucked it away into my 'must make soon' file. Anything that sounds just a little strange-but-wonderful gets tucked into that file. Fresh pureed mango is incorporated into a gingery flavored sweet bread that is scattered throughout with roasted macadamia nuts: Mango Gingerbread with Macadamia Streusel.









If you're expecting a bread infused with the wonderful, tropical flavor of mango, this isn't it. The mango simply works as a 'moisturizer' much the same way that applesauce does in cakes. Added buttermilk helps with the tenderness as well. The whole cake only has 1/4 cup of canola oil in it.

This bite gives you a sneak peak of how moist the bread is. Heavy on the ginger flavor, this cake-like bread is topped with a mixture of macadamias, sugar and crystallized ginger. If you don't care much for a heavy ginger flavor, I would suggest nixing the crystallized ginger on top.

We liked it best with a smidgen of sweetened whipped cream. Next time I might even add two smidgens.

The next strange-but-wonderful recipe sitting in my 'must try soon' file involves salmon, peanut butter, and grape jelly. No kidding. Because you never know...it might just be the next best thing!

This recipe can be found HERE.

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