Almond and Strawberry Bread

EdsGirlAngie's Note:

What better way to welcome spring than with this sweet strawberry bread! Yogurt makes this bread very moist and almond extract makes it sweetly delicious! Tint the icing pink if you wish, for a pretty, spring-y look.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 15 mins
• Prep Time: 25 mins
• Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 1 loaf

• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 6 tablespoons sugar
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon almond extract
• 1/2 cup plain yogurt
• 1/2 cup slivered almond
• 1 cup strawberry, finely chopped and patted dry

The Glaze

• 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 -2 tablespoon milk, as needed
• 1 dash red food coloring (optional)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Grease a 7-1/2 x 3-1/2 inch loaf pan (actually, any size works; adjust baking time accordingly).
3. In a small bowl combine flour, baking soda and salt.
4. In a large bowl, cream together sugar and butter; add egg and almond extract and beat until fluffy.
5. Add flour and yogurt alternately to creamed mixture.
6. Fold in almonds, then strawberries.
7. Turn batter into prepared pan and bake 45 to 50 minutes at 350 degrees F or until toothpick or knife inserted all the way to bottom comes out clean.
8. While bread is baking, combine the glaze ingredients.
9. Let bread cool in pan.
10. While bread is still warm, drizzle with almond glaze.

Reviews

[nott]

Zero stars. Mine was a gooey, nasty, uncooked mess. It stuck to a non-stick loaf pan that was sprayed with PAM! The edges that did cook had no strawberry flavor. I wish I had my ingredients, time, money and energy back. I followed the recipe precisely. Don't know what went wrong. I've never had such a disaster. Maybe it was my oven. I don't blame anyone but myself.

[Jennygal]

This was very good! I think next time I may use just slightly less strawberries. I used vanilla yogurt as that is what I had, but it was probiotic so I figured it couldn't hurt to add some good for you stuff in there! My company loved it!

[LuckyDog]

YUM! I had a bunch of fresh strawberries to use up and this recipe fit the bill. I used almost all whole wheat flour and substituted applesauce for half of the butter. Because I doubled the recipe, I ended up with 2 decent sized loaves. The bread doesn't rise that much, so the loaves turn out smaller than expected. But, I love the taste of the almond - adding the slivered almonds is a must. I didn't even make the topping - the bread was just fine without it and would be too sweet, in my opinion, with the glaze on top. Thanks for a really unique treat!