Cranberry Bread

Submitted by RecipeNut

• Ready In: 1hr 10mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Yields: 2 loaves
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 2 cups fresh cranberries or 2 cups frozen cranberries, chopped
• 1 2⁄3 cups sugar
• 2⁄3 cup vegetable oil
• 1⁄2 cup milk
• 2 teaspoons grated lemons or 2 teaspoons grated orange rind
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 4 eggs
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1⁄2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts or 1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecans
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt

directions

1. Heat oven to 350º.
2. Grease bottoms only of 2 loaf pans, 8 1/2 × 4 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches or 9 × 5 × 3 inches.
3. Mix cranberries, sugar, oil, milk, lemon peel, vanilla and eggs in large bowl.
4. Stir in remaining ingredients.
5. Pour into pans.
6. Bake 50 to 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
7. Cool 10 minutes.
8. Loosen sides of loaves from pans; remove from pans.
9. Cool completely on wire rack before slicing.
10. Store tightly wrapped in refrigerator up to 1 week.

Reviews

[AlAriel]

I added 3 cups of cranberries instead of two. I also used buttermilk instead of regular milk. It's great hot out of the oven with butter and cinnamon & sugar! My son, whom dislikes cranberries, loved this bread! He ate more of it than anyone in the house!

 

[Baker Barb]

Wonderful Cranberry Bread - an absolute keeper. I looked at the reviews and used everyone's ideas: used pecans and covered with a simple orange glaze made with one cup icing sugar + 1 tbsp orange juice. I always cut oil by half and add applesauce instead - yummy and moist and less fattening. This has a nice light taste and the right balance between tart and sweet - even better the 2nd day. I'm glad it makes 2 loaves since we are just about done the first one in one day! Wonderful - will be part of my permanent collection.

 

[kaurorac]

Found it to be a little dry...will sub applesauce for the oil next time.

 

[ericaj]

Delicious. I used the two loaf recipe in a bundt pan instead and just increased the baking time. Also, I topped it with a simple glaze using powdered sugar, a bit of orange extract and milk. My mom took some to her work and my husband took some to his and I got a lot of compliments and a few requests for the recipe. Easily five stars for taste and ease to make.

 

[914939]

Awesome! The best cranberry bread I have ever had but I did make a few changes to it. I omitted the lemon zest and the nuts (don't like either) and used two teaspoons of almond extract instead of vanilla. The almond extract made it absolutely amazing. I did chop the cranberries quite fine in the food processor after reading other reviews and the loaves are not tart at all.