Strawberry Bread | Cookies and Cups

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

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

Why You’ll Love This Simple Strawberry Bread Recipe

This wonderful contemporary strawberry bread is a keeper! It’s a delicate 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:

• Simple. 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 components, a loaf pan, and an hour or much less from begin to end.
• Home made cream cheese icing. I drizzle this candy bread loaf with a candy strawberry cream cheese icing (solely 3 components!) and it principally tastes like cake.
• Any event. The strawberry flavors make this bread the right 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 high 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 have to make this fluffy strawberry bread are frequent baking components. I’ve included some notes beneath. Scroll to the recipe card for a printable listing of components and recipe particulars.

• Strawberries – I really like making this bread with contemporary 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 – Delivered to room temperature. You need to use salted or unsalted butter. If wanted, you need to use an egg substitute on this fast bread recipe.
• Vanilla – Actual vanilla extract. For one more layer of taste, strive utilizing half vanilla and half lemon extract.
• Milk – This may be any form of dairy or non-dairy milk.
• Cream Cheese – To mix with powdered sugar and pureed strawberries for the icing. Convey 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 contemporary berries, they aren’t at all times in season the place I stay. In that case, it’s frozen strawberries to the rescue. If you happen to’re making this bread with frozen strawberries, thaw them utterly and pat them dry with paper towels beforehand. 

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 many others. from sinking to the underside of desserts, muffins, and bread loaves.

Subsequent, it’s a matter of mixing the moist components and steadily including the dry components 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. 

Simple 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 will have 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 attainable to skinny it out with a bit of milk in case you’d want extra of a glaze.

Recipe Ideas

• Coat the strawberries in a bit of 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 simply raise the bread out as soon as it’s cooled off. Minimize 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 by way of baking. This manner, it bakes extra evenly.
• Skip the icing. The strawberry icing is scrumptious however elective. 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 possibly can even depart your strawberry bread plain and it’ll nonetheless style nice.

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• To retailer. Hold this strawberry bread saved hermetic at room temperature for as much as 3-4 days. You may as well maintain 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 nicely. Wrap the strawberry bread entire 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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