How To Make Cranberry Orange Quick Bread
Tender cranberry-studded quick bread has the aroma of citrus and a smooth and sweet orange glaze that is sure to bring deliciousness to your holidays.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 4cupscranberries,chopped
- ¼cupgranulated sugar,for tossing the cranberries in
- 4cupsflour
- 2tspbaking soda
- 1½tspsalt
- ⅔cupvegetable oil
- 2cupssugar
- 1orange zest
- 2eggs
- 2cupsorange juice,fresh is best, just use the orange you zested
For Glaze:
- ¼cupfresh orange juice
- ½cuppowdered sugar
For Garnish:
- 2tbsporange peel,grated, optional
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
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Wash and chop fresh (or frozen) cranberries, and with 1/4 cup granulated sugar, and set aside.
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In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, and salt.
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In a separate bowl mix together together oil, 2 cups sugar, and orange zest, mix well
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Combine your flour mixture with your sugar mixture, then slowly add the egg and orange juice
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Mix until just combined.
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Fold in cranberries.
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Pour into 4 greased mini loaf pans, and bake 35-40 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
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Remove from oven and let cool in the pan 5 to 10 minutes
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Remove from pan, and let cool completely.
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Combine glaze ingredients and whisk together, adjust amount of powdered sugar used based on desired consistency.
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Pour glaze over bread and add orange peel (or candied orange peel) for garnish!
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Enjoy.
Nutrition
- Calories: 237.71kcal
- Fat: 6.84g
- Saturated Fat: 0.56g
- Trans Fat: 0.05g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 4.64g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.24g
- Carbohydrates: 41.96g
- Fiber: 1.51g
- Sugar: 23.92g
- Protein: 2.85g
- Cholesterol: 13.33mg
- Sodium: 219.62mg
- Calcium: 10.37mg
- Potassium: 91.00mg
- Iron: 0.42mg
- Vitamin A: 8.73µg
- Vitamin C: 14.86mg
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