White Chocolate Cranberry Bread

Sydney Mike's Note:

The tangy taste of cranberries is great, but then combine that with both vanilla chips & the citrus of orange & lemon, well . . . ! This recipe, now somewhat tweaked, comes from Taste of Home Best Holiday Recipes, 2008!

• Total Time: 1 hrs 6 mins
• Prep Time: 6 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Serves: 12

Yield: 1.0 loaf

• ½ cup butter flavor shortening
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 3 large eggs
• ½ cup buttermilk
• 3 tablespoons orange juice
• 1 teaspoon lemon zest , minced
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ½ cup vanilla chip , melted, cooled
• 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon baking soda
• 1 ½ cups dried cranberries

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, then grease & flour a 9-inch loaf pan.
2. In large mixing bowl, cream shortening & sugar.
3. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
4. Beat in buttermilk, orange juice, lemon zest & vanilla.
5. Stir in melted chips.
6. In another bowl, whisk together flour, salt & baking soda, then gradually add to this to creamed mixture.
7. Stir in cranberries.
8. Pour into prepared loaf pan & bake 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near center comes out clean.
9. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pan & cooling completely on wire rack.

Reviews

[adopt a greyhound]

Good stuff! I didn't get this made during the holidays so made it yesterday. Wow, so good, moist and delicious.

[**Tinkerbell**]

Delicious! It was dense & moist and because I didn't have any OJ & had to use lemon juice it tasted like a lemon cranberry pound cake. Oh YUM! I used a little extra lemon zest & the fresh lemon juice but otherwise followed the recipe. I think next time I'll even try adding some unmelted vanilla chips to the batter with the cranberries. I can't wait to try it again with the orange juice (I'll have to hide it from my kids. lol) Thanks for sharing, Syd! Made for Every Day is a Holiday tag game.

[Kitzy]

Wow! This is so tasty. I didn't melt the chips but just put them in as they were. Also, I didn't have quite enough cranberries so used 1 cup of cranberries and 1/2 cup sultanas which worked really well. This bread is amazing. Thanks!