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 fashion 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 one among my greatest strawberry recipes, particularly in the summertime when contemporary berries come into season. Remember to attempt 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 smooth and moist fast bread recipe, like banana bread, solely full of juicy summer season strawberries. Right here’s why you’ll wish 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.
• Selfmade 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 right summer season deal with, however it’s scrumptious year-round (you’ll be able to 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 packing containers or to take alongside on busy errand-running days.

Components You’ll Want

Most of what you’ll have to make this fluffy strawberry bread are widespread baking components. I’ve included some notes beneath. Scroll to the recipe card for a printable record 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 Components – 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 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 sort of dairy or non-dairy milk.
• Cream Cheese – To mix with powdered sugar and pureed strawberries for the icing. Carry 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 really like contemporary berries, they aren’t at all times in season the place I dwell. In that case, it’s frozen strawberries to the rescue. Should you’re making this bread with frozen strawberries, thaw them fully and pat them dry with paper towels beforehand. 

The 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 components and progressively including the dry components to make a easy 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 have got a silky easy 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 attainable to skinny it out with a bit milk in the event you’d favor 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 only 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 don’t have any points popping the bread out afterward.
• Rotate the pan. I like to recommend turning the pan within the oven midway by means 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.

The way to Retailer

• To retailer. Maintain this strawberry bread saved hermetic at room temperature for as much as 3-4 days. You may as well hold 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 effectively. 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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