Best 5 Blueberry Cranberry Bread Recipes

CRANBERRY ORANGE BLUEBERRY ALMOND BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350º. Spray TWO 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 loaf pan with cooking spray and set aside.
• 2. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, and baking powder. In a small bowl, combine sugar and orange zest. Rub together with your fingers until fragrant. Whisk into the flour mixture. Set aside.
• 3. In a separate medium bowl, combine the buttermilk, oil, eggs, orange juice, and vanilla.
• 4. Slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Stir until just combined. Fold in the cranberries and blueberries. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
• 5. Bake for 70-75 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean. If your loaf starts to get too brown drape a piece of foil over the top to finish baking. I did this during the last 10 minutes of the baking time.
• 6. Remove bread from oven and place on a cooling rack and cool for 15 minutes. Loosen the sides of the bread with a knife. Carefully remove loaf from pan. Let cool completely on wire rack.
• 7. The bread on the left is the one by TwoPeasinaPod, the one on the right is my adapted version.
• 8. Once the breads cooled I sliced them and places them in large french fries paper containers with wax paper liner and then glazed them. Then I placed in plastic bags with ties and gave them as Christmas gifts.

BLUEBERRY CRANBERRY BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Grease two standard size loaf pans.
• Mix cranberries, blueberries and granulated sugar together in saucepan, cooking over medium heat and stirring until sugar is dissloved.
• Remove from heat and set fruit aside to cool.
• Mix brown sugar and butter in mixing bowl and beat until blended. Add eggs and beat well.
• Stir in buttermilk.
• Mix flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a bowl and stir until well mixed.
• Add to butter mixture and stir until just blended.
• Stir in fruit and sugar mixture.
• Spoon batter into greased loaf pans.
• Bake for 1 hour and ten minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted into center.
• Remove and cool.

DRIED BLUEBERRY, CRANBERRY OR APRICOT BANANA NUT BREAD

Steps:

• preheat oven to 350degrees.
• grease bottom and 1in up the sides of TWO bread 7 1/2x3 1/2x2in bread pans; set aside.
• combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg.
• in a medium mixing bowl, or food processor, combine eggs, bananas, sugar and butter. (I use I Can't Beleive It's Not Butter). Mix for 30 seconds.
• fold in nuts of your choice.
• spoon batter into prepared pans.
• bake at 350 for 40-45minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of bread comes clean.
• cool in pan on a wire rack for 10minutes. remove from pan. cool completely on a wire rack and enjoy.

CRANBERRY BLUEBERRY BREAD FOR THE BREAD MACHINE

Steps:

• Following the manufacturers directions for your bread machine, add all the ingredients to the bread pan except the cranberries and blueberries.
• Set the machine for either the Sweet or Basic/White bread cycle.
• Select either a Light or Medium crust.
• Add the cranberries and blueberries during the last 5 to 10 minutes of the kneading cycle or at the raisin/nut signal.
• *Note: Do not use the delay cycle for this bread recipe.

CRANBERRY BLUEBERRY BREAD

Steps:

• Make 1 ½ Pound Recipe with bread machines that use 3 cups flour, or make 2 Pound Recipe with bread machines that use 4 cups flour.Measure carefully, placing all ingredients except cranberries and blueberries in bread machine pan in the order recommended by the manufacturer. Add cranberries and blueberries at the Raisin/Nut signal.Select Sweet or Basic/White cycle. Use Medium or Light crust color. Do not use delay cycles. Remove baked bread from pan, and cool on wire rack.1 Slice: 165 calories (20 calories from fat) 2g fat (0g saturated) 0mg cholesterol 270 sodium 35g carbohydrate (2g dietary fiber) 4g proteinSUCCESS TIP If your bread machine doesn't have a Raisin/Nut signal, add the cranberries and blueberries 5 to 10 minutes before the last kneading cycle ends. Check your bread machine's use-and-care book to find out how long the last cycle runs.SUCCESS TIP We found from our testing that the same amount of yeast is needed for both the 1 1/2-pound and 2-pound loaves.TRY THISDried cherries are a nice replacement for the dried cranberries for a red, white and blue loaf of summer bread.From "Betty Crocker's Best Bread Machine Cookbook, The Goodness of Homemade Bread the Easy Way." Text Copyright 1999 General Mills, Inc. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.