Apple Cranberry Bread served warm from the oven is moist and full of sweet apples and tart cranberries and makes a terrific breakfast idea. Of course, it’s also divine to enjoy with a cup of coffee for an afternoon treat. Regardless of when you enjoy, you will love this moist quick bread recipe.
Course Bread
Cuisine American
Keyword Apple Cranberry Bread, Bread with cranberries and apples, Cranberry Apple Bread, How to Make Apple Cranberry Bread, How to Make Cranberry Apple Bread, What to do with fresh cranberries
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 1 hourhour5 minutesminutes
Additional Time 15 minutesminutes
Total Time 1 hourhour35 minutesminutes
Servings 16
Calories 139kcal
Author Rhonda
Ingredients
2cupsall-purpose flour
¾cupsugar
1 ½teaspoonsbaking powder
1teaspoonsalt
½teaspoonbaking soda
¼cupunsalted buttercubed
1egg
¾cuporange juice
1 ½cupsfresh cranberries
1appleskinned and diced
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Prepare the loaf pan by greasing and flouring the bottom and sides of the pan.
Wash and dry the cranberries and the apple. Remove the skin from the apple and diced into small chunks.
In a large bowl, add in all of the dry ingredients. Then, using two knives or a pastry cutter, cut in the butter until the mixture resembles a crumbly mixture. *The butter HAS to be cold to do this.
Next, in a small bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients. Then incorporate the wet mixture into the dry.
Then gently fold in the cranberries.
Drop the batter into the prepared loaf pan.
Bake for approximately 65 minutes then check with a cake taster or toothpick inserted in the middle of the loaf comes out clean. If it's not done, continue cooking in 5 minute increments until it's done.
Let the loaf cool in the pan for 15 minutes.
Then remove it to a wire cooling rack to finish the cooling process. Of course, you probably won't want to wait to enjoy this amazingly yummy bread. So cut the loaf carefully and enjoy!