This recipe recreates a traditional Christmas dish that my mother used to prepare every year. Bread freezes successfully.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr |
| Additional Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 25 mins |
| Servings: | 10 |
| Yield: | 1 loaf |
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup white sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup butter
- ¾ cup orange juice
- 1 egg, well beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon grated orange zest
- 1 ½ cups cranberries
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9×5-inch loaf pan.
- Sift flour, white sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a large mixing bowl. Mash butter into the flour mixture with a pastry cutter until the mixture resembles coarse cornmeal.
- Stir orange juice, egg, vanilla extract, and orange zest together in a small bowl; add to flour mixture and stir just until the dry ingredients are moistened and batter-like. Fold cranberries and walnuts through the batter; spoon into the prepared loaf pan, spreading so the corners and sides are slightly higher than the center.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.
- When doubling recipe, use 3 eggs instead of just 2.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 315 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 55 g |
| Cholesterol | 31 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 359 mg |
| Sugars | 33 g |
| Fat | 9 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Best cranberry bread ever! Nice and moist with a little crunch from the nuts. Delicious and easy to make.
This was very good. Be careful not to over bake. Nice balance of flavors and textures. Would make again.
Didn’t add nuts, and still is delicious.