Cranberry Bread
A simple and easy recipe for cranberry bread!
Prep Time5 mins
Cook Time1 hr
Cooling Time10 mins
Total Time1 hr 5 mins
Servings: 2 loaves
Ingredients
- 12 ounce cranberry bag, frozen or fresh chopped
- 2 cups sugar
- 2/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup milk
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp grated orange zest or lemon zest
- 4 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup walnuts or pecans coarsely chopped
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tbsn butter
- 1 tbsp orange juice optional
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 2 loaf pans with butter (8 1/2 × 4 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches or 9 × 5 × 3 inches).
- Whisk milk, vegetable oil, and eggs in a large bowl.
- Mix in the sugar, cranberries, lemon or orange zest, orange juice, cinnamon powder, and vanilla. Add in the remaining ingredients and mix well.
- Pour into pans and bake for 50 minutes or till a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool for 10 minutes and loosen sides of the loaves from the pans.
- Let it cool completely on a wire rack before slicing. Enjoy your cranberry bread!
- You can also make cranberry muffins with the same dough.
Notes
You can store it for up to a week in the refrigerator. Make sure to wrap it tightly.