Strawberry Bread | Cookies and Cups

This strawberry bread is a HUGE favourite in my home! It’s a gentle, moist loaf made in the identical type 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 best strawberry recipes, particularly in the summertime when recent berries come into season. Make sure to 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 gentle and moist fast bread recipe, like banana bread, solely filled with juicy summer season 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 number of easy substances, a loaf pan, and an hour or much less from begin to end.
• Do-it-yourself cream cheese icing. I drizzle this candy bread loaf with a candy strawberry cream cheese icing (solely 3 substances!) and it principally tastes like cake.
• Any event. The strawberry flavors make this bread the proper summer season deal with, but it surely’s scrumptious year-round (you possibly can even use frozen berries). I like slices at breakfast with my morning espresso or tea, or I’ll high this strawberry bread with ice cream for dessert. It’s additionally an important snack to pack in lunch containers or to take alongside on busy errand-running days.

Substances You’ll Want

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

• Strawberries – I 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 use salted or unsalted butter. If wanted, you should utilize 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 possibly can! Whereas I like recent berries, they aren’t all the time in season the place I reside. In that case, it’s frozen strawberries to the rescue. Should you’re making this bread with frozen strawberries, thaw them utterly and pat them dry with paper towels beforehand. 

Tips on how 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 desserts, muffins, and bread loaves.

Subsequent, it’s a matter of mixing the moist substances and progressively including the dry substances 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’ve 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 possibly can unfold it over the bread. It’s additionally doable to skinny it out with a bit milk in the event you’d choose extra of a glaze.

Recipe Suggestions

• Coat the strawberries in a bit 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 wish 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 haven’t any points popping the bread out in a while.
• 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-compulsory. Be at liberty to make use of any various topping you’d like, whether or not that’s vanilla glaze, frosting, or in any other case. You may even go away your strawberry bread plain and it’ll nonetheless style nice.

Tips on how to Retailer

• To retailer. Hold this strawberry bread saved hermetic at room temperature for as much as 3-4 days. You can too maintain it within the fridge to delay 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 finest freshness and thaw at room temperature for serving.

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