This spice bread recipe is full of holiday flavor! Put these loaves in pretty jars as delicious gifts to spread the festive cheer any time of the year.
Preparation:
20mins
Cooking:
45mins
Total:
1hr5mins
Serves:
12
Ingredients
1cupsugar
1cupbrown sugarpacked
2eggs
2cupsbuttermilk or sour milk (2 cups milk + 2 tbsp white vinegar, let stand 5 minutes before using)
1cupvegetable oil
1tspvanilla extract
1tspapricot brandy optional
4cupsflour
2tspbaking soda
1tspbaking powder
2tspcinnamon
1tspnutmeg
1tspallspice
1tspcloves
1cupraisins
1cupwalnutschopped
Instructions
Cream sugar, brown sugar and eggs together.
Add oil, vanilla, and brandy. Mix together.
In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and cloves.
Add the dry ingredients to the egg mixture alternately with buttermilk. Stir in raisins and walnuts.
Pour the batter into greased, 1-pint, wide-mouthed canning jars with perfectly straight sides, a little more than half-filled.
Place filled jars on a cookie sheet. Bake in a preheated oven, 350 degrees, for 40 to 45 minutes or until tested done like a cake.
Cool for 10 minutes in the jars. Remove from jars and cool for 15 minutes on racks.
Wrap each loaf in plastic wrap while still warm. Finish cooling on racks.
Serve once cooled or freeze if you are making them ahead of time.