Strawberry Bread | Cookies and Cups

This strawberry bread is a HUGE favourite in my home! It’s a smooth, 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 one in every of my best strawberry recipes, particularly in the summertime when recent berries come into season. You should definitely attempt my strawberry pound cake recipe, too!

Why You’ll Love This Simple Strawberry Bread Recipe

This wonderful recent strawberry bread is a keeper! It’s a smooth 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:

• 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 just a few easy components, 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 components!) and it mainly tastes like cake.
• Any event. The strawberry flavors make this bread the proper summer season deal with, nevertheless it’s scrumptious year-round (you’ll be able to even use frozen berries). I 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 incredible snack to pack in lunch containers or to take alongside on busy errand-running days.

Elements 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 like making this bread with recent strawberries. You can also make it with frozen strawberries when it’s out of season, see beneath.
• Dry Elements – Your baking fundamentals like all-purpose flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
• Butter and Eggs – Delivered to 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 one more layer of taste, attempt 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. Deliver the cream cheese to room temperature in order that it’s simpler to combine.

Can I Use Frozen Strawberries?

Sure, you’ll be able to! Whereas I like recent berries, they aren’t all the time in season the place I stay. In that case, it’s frozen strawberries to the rescue. When you’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 regularly 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’ll be able to unfold it over the bread. It’s additionally doable to skinny it out with a bit milk should you’d desire extra of a glaze.

Recipe Ideas

• 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 simply carry 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 by baking. This fashion, 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 may even go away your strawberry bread plain and it’ll nonetheless style nice.

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• 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 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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