Cranberry Orange Bread Recipe – Chocolate Lined Katie

Tender, moist, and bursting with candy cranberries, this vacation cranberry orange bread recipe will immediately brighten your breakfast desk!

The very best cranberry orange bread recipe

In case you’re in search of a scrumptious recipe to serve visitors through the holidays, this delicately candy and juicy cranberry bread is the proper festive alternative.

It’s additionally fantastic for Thanksgiving or Christmas morning.

The unimaginable recipe packs in a full TWO CUPS of contemporary cranberries, which is sort of double what’s referred to as for in most basic cranberry orange bread recipes!

Frosted with a easy orange glaze, it tastes like consuming cranberry pound cake for breakfast and is just about unattainable to withstand.

Friends additionally love this Crustless Pumpkin Pie

Watch the cranberry orange bread recipe video, above

Wholesome cranberry orange cake loaf

The cranberry loaf can completely maintain its personal in opposition to any conventional cranberry orange cake recipes with twice the quantity of fats and sugar.

In a blind style check, 5 out of six of my associates selected this model as their favourite, with out having any concept it was more healthy and vegan.

I despatched the recipe to my mother over the weekend so she might make it for a winter get together. She reported again that each one her visitors have been asking for the recipe!

In case you are a fan of the Krusteaz cranberry orange fast bread, or for those who all the time get excited in regards to the cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving dinner, you’ll completely fall in love with this home made cranberry orange bread.

Additionally make this Chocolate Banana Bread

Cranberry orange bread substances

Right here’s what you want: cranberries, orange juice, orange zest, flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, pure vanilla extract, salt, oil, and elective nuts.

There’s no yeast, no bitter cream or sourdough, and no cranberry juice or honey.

The recipe works with white all goal flour, entire grain spelt flour, or oat flour. I’ve not tried entire wheat flour, almond flour, or pastry flour. Be happy to experiment with different flours, and be sure you report again for those who do.

I don’t advocate utilizing coconut flour, as a result of your loaf will prove dry and crumbly because of the absorbent nature of coconut flour.

Unsweetened cranberries have a tartness that completely compliments the candy orange on this bread. And together with orange juice allows you to decrease the oil and added sugar significantly, whereas including further taste and moisture on the similar time.

For a stunning cranberry nut bread, I typically stir a handful of finely chopped walnuts or pecans into the batter earlier than baking.

You’ll want to embrace the orange zest! It provides a lot taste to the recipe.

Whereas I can’t personally vouch for the style and texture of the cranberry dessert if subbing mashed banana or applesauce for oil, a number of readers have written in to say they tried substituting applesauce for the fats and favored the outcomes.

Standard this week: Applesauce Muffins

Contemporary, dried, or frozen cranberries?

The recipe works with both frozen or contemporary cranberries.

Costco, Goal, Safeway, Wegmans, and Entire meals all promote cranberries. For the healthiest choice, search for cranberries with none sugar listed within the substances. Good manufacturers embrace Cape Cod Choose, Dealer Joes, Dole, and Ocean Spray.

You need to use dried cranberries if different varieties are usually not out there. The cranberry loaf will simply not be as darkish pink and colourful. Add somewhat further orange juice if wanted to make up for the distinction in moisture.

An alternative choice for those who can’t discover cranberries to purchase on the grocery retailer is to substitute chopped contemporary or frozen cherries and even blueberries to make blueberry orange bread.

Is the recipe gluten free, keto, or vegan?

For vegan cranberry bread with no eggs, merely omit the elective egg or use flax egg. Select oil or a plant primarily based butter. The recipe is already naturally dairy free.

You need to use licensed gluten free oat flour for a gluten free cranberry orange bread. Some all goal gluten free flours may additionally work for those who want to experiment.

To make a keto cranberry loaf, observe this recipe for Keto Lemon Bread. Substitute orange juice and orange zest for the lemon, and add a handful of chopped cranberries.

The right way to make cranberry orange bread

Collect your substances, and preheat the oven to 350 levels Fahrenheit.

Grease a 9×5 inch loaf pan, and line the underside of the pan with parchment paper, which can allow you to simply take away the completed loaf later.

Stir the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda in a big mixing bowl. Add all remaining substances besides the cranberries, and stir to type a batter.

Gently stir within the cranberries, then clean the combination into the ready loaf pan. Place the baking pan on the oven’s middle rack. Bake for 50-55 minutes or till the bread has risen and a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out principally clear.

Let cool, then frost if desired. If ready is an choice, the style and texture of this straightforward cranberry orange bread are even higher the subsequent day!

*It’s also possible to flip this loaf into cranberry orange mini loaves or muffins. Baked at 350 levels for 20-25 minutes, the recipe will yield a dozen cranberry orange muffins.

Making cranberry bread utilizing gram measurements

In case you desire to make use of a meals scale as an alternative of measuring cups, for higher accuracy and simple clear up, use the measurements beneath.

You will want 240 grams every of flour, orange juice, and of cranberries, 150 grams of sugar, 10 grams every of orange zest and vanilla extract, and 36 grams of oil or butter.

Additionally be sure you add the opposite substances not measured in cups or grams.

Nonetheless craving cranberries? Make Vegan Cranberry Bliss Bars

Suggestions for storing leftovers

The cranberry orange loaf might be omitted on the counter in a single day, loosely coated with a material or paper towels. This permits extra moisture to flee so the bread doesn’t turn into gummy.

After a day, I wish to retailer leftovers within the fridge in a coated container (leaving a tiny opening on the high), for optimum freshness. The bread will final for 4 to 5 days.

Or slice leftover cranberry orange bread and freeze in an hermetic container for as much as three months. Sandwich a layer of parchment or wax paper in between every slice so they don’t stick collectively within the freezer.

Thaw frozen slices within the fridge in a single day or in a microwave, oven, or toaster oven. Take pleasure in on a morning if you want a fast breakfast that encompasses the very best flavors of the vacation season.

Orange glaze icing choices

You may make a easy orange glaze icing by combining 1/4 cup of powdered sugar with 1 teaspoon of orange juice and an elective sprinkle of orange zest.

Or frost the cranberry orange cake with melted coconut butter or your favourite retailer purchased or home made cream cheese frosting. A bit of orange zest might be stirred into these two frosting choices as properly, without having to measure.

Additionally it is nice to skip the icing utterly. Strive spreading butter, jam, coconut butter, or almond butter on particular person cranberry orange bread slices.

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