Glazed Cranberry Orange Loaves

Submitted by Courtly

"From Pampered Chef, I'll be making these this holiday season!"

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 16

ingredients

• Bread

• 709.77 ml all-purpose flour
• 295.73 ml sugar
• 2.46 ml salt
• 14.79 ml baking powder
• 118.29 ml pecans, coarsely chopped
• 177.44 ml butter
• 1 orange
• 2 eggs
• 295.73 ml milk
• 236.59 ml dried cranberries
• additional pecan halves (optional)

• Glaze

• 118.29 ml powdered sugar
• 14.79 ml milk

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Lightly spray bottom of 4 mini loaf pans with nonstick cooking spray; set aside.
3. In a bowl, combine flour, sugar, salt and baking powder.
4. Add chopped pecans.
5. Mix well and set aside.
6. In a small bowl, microwave butter on HIGH 45-60 seconds or until melted.
7. Zest orange to measure 1 tbsp of zest.
8. Juice orange to measure 1/4 Cup juice.
9. Add zest, juice, eggs and milk to butter; whisk until combined.
10. Add butter mixture to dry ingredients; mix just until dry ingredients are moistened.
11. Do not overmix.
12. Gently stir cranberries into batter.
13. Fill each well of the loaf pan with about 1 cup batter.
14. Top batter with additional pecan halves, if desired.
15. Bake 40-45 minutes or until Cake tester or wooden toothpick inserted in center of loaves comes out clean and tops are golden brown.
16. Cool in pan 5 minutes.
17. Loosen sides of loaves from pan; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
18. For glaze, mix powdered sugar and milk until smooth; drizzle evenly over cooled loaves.