Strawberry Bread | Cookies and Cups

This strawberry bread is a HUGE favourite in my home! It’s a mushy, moist loaf made in the identical model as banana bread, solely this model is loaded with recent strawberries and topped with a candy strawberry cream cheese icing. 

My fast strawberry bread is certainly one of my greatest strawberry recipes, particularly in the summertime when recent berries come into season. You should definitely strive my strawberry pound cake recipe, too!

Why You’ll Love This Straightforward Strawberry Bread Recipe

This superb recent strawberry bread is a keeper! It’s a mushy and moist fast bread recipe, like banana bread, solely filled with juicy summer time strawberries. Right here’s why you’ll need to have a slice for breakfast, a snack, AND dessert:

• Straightforward. This strawberry-studded loaf is a fast bread recipe. Like banana bread, there’s no yeast and nil rising time. All you want is a couple of easy elements, a loaf pan, and an hour or much less from begin to end.
• Selfmade cream cheese icing. I drizzle this candy bread loaf with a candy strawberry cream cheese icing (solely 3 elements!) and it mainly tastes like cake.
• Any event. The strawberry flavors make this bread the proper summer time deal with, nevertheless it’s scrumptious year-round (you may even use frozen berries). I really like slices at breakfast with my morning espresso or tea, or I’ll prime this strawberry bread with ice cream for dessert. It’s additionally an amazing snack to pack in lunch containers or to take alongside on busy errand-running days.

Substances You’ll Want

Most of what you’ll must make this fluffy strawberry bread are frequent baking elements. I’ve included some notes beneath. Scroll to the recipe card for a printable listing of elements and recipe particulars.

• Strawberries – I really like making this bread with recent strawberries. You can also make it with frozen strawberries when it’s out of season, see beneath.
• Dry Substances – Your baking fundamentals like all-purpose flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
• Butter and Eggs – Dropped at room temperature. You should utilize salted or unsalted butter. If wanted, you need to use an egg substitute on this fast bread recipe.
• Vanilla – Actual vanilla extract. For an additional layer of taste, strive utilizing half vanilla and half lemon extract.
• Milk – This may be any sort of dairy or non-dairy milk.
• Cream Cheese – To mix with powdered sugar and pureed strawberries for the icing. Deliver the cream cheese to room temperature in order that it’s simpler to combine.

Can I Use Frozen Strawberries?

Sure, you may! Whereas I really like recent berries, they aren’t all the time in season the place I dwell. In that case, it’s frozen strawberries to the rescue. In the event you’re making this bread with frozen strawberries, thaw them fully and pat them dry with paper towels beforehand. 

The right way to Make Strawberry Bread

Earlier than you begin, toss the strawberries with a sprinkle of flour. It’s a useful baking trick that retains fruit add-ins like strawberries, blueberries, and so on. from sinking to the underside of truffles, muffins, and bread loaves.

Subsequent, it’s a matter of mixing the moist elements and progressively including the dry elements to make a clean batter. The floured strawberries go in final. Afterward, bake the strawberry bread in a 9×5” loaf pan at 350ºF for 45-50 minutes. 

Straightforward Strawberry Cream Cheese Icing

Whereas your bread cools off, make your icing! Puree about ¼ cup of strawberries and fold them right into a bowl with cream cheese and powdered sugar. Give {that a} good combine till you have got a silky clean icing. 

This cream cheese icing is thick sufficient to pipe with a piping bag (or with a plastic baggie with the nook snipped), or you may unfold it over the bread. It’s additionally doable to skinny it out with somewhat milk if you happen to’d choose extra of a glaze.

Recipe Ideas

• Coat the strawberries in somewhat flour. As talked about, it helps to maintain the strawberries from sinking to the underside of the batter.
• Line the pan. Along with greasing the pan, I prefer to line the baking pan with parchment paper, too. It makes it really easy to only raise the bread out as soon as it’s cooled off. Lower a strip of parchment paper lengthy sufficient to cowl the underside and line the 2 lengthy ends of the pan. Give the paper an additional coating with cooking spray, and also you’ll don’t have any points popping the bread out afterward.
• Rotate the pan. I like to recommend turning the pan within the oven midway via baking. This manner, it bakes extra evenly.
• Skip the icing. The strawberry icing is scrumptious however non-obligatory. Be at liberty to make use of any different topping you’d like, whether or not that’s vanilla glaze, frosting, or in any other case. You possibly can even go away your strawberry bread plain and it’ll nonetheless style nice.

The right way to Retailer

• To retailer. Preserve this strawberry bread saved hermetic at room temperature for as much as 3-4 days. You can too preserve it within the fridge to lengthen its shelf life for a few days.
• Freeze. Fast bread like this strawberry bread and my fall-favorite pumpkin bread freeze tremendous properly. Wrap the strawberry bread complete or in slices, then double-wrap it in foil or plastic wrap. Freeze it for as much as 30 days for greatest freshness and thaw at room temperature for serving.

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