Strawberry Bread | Cookies and Cups

This strawberry bread is a HUGE favourite in my home! It’s a comfortable, 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 certainly one of my greatest strawberry recipes, particularly in the summertime when contemporary berries come into season. Remember to 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 comfortable and moist fast bread recipe, like banana bread, solely full of juicy summer time 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 0 rising time. All you want is a number of easy elements, 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 elements!) and it mainly tastes like cake.
• Any event. The strawberry flavors make this bread the right summer time deal with, nevertheless it’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 prime this strawberry bread with ice cream for dessert. It’s additionally an incredible snack to pack in lunch packing containers or to take alongside on busy errand-running days.

Elements You’ll Want

Most of what you’ll must make this fluffy strawberry bread are widespread baking elements. I’ve included some notes under. Scroll to the recipe card for a printable record of elements and recipe particulars.

• Strawberries – I like making this bread with contemporary strawberries. You may make it with frozen strawberries when it’s out of season, see under.
• Dry Elements – 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 an additional layer of taste, strive utilizing half vanilla and half lemon extract.
• Milk – This may be any type 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 possibly can! Whereas I 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. For those who’re making this bread with frozen strawberries, thaw them utterly and pat them dry with paper towels beforehand. 

Learn how to Make Strawberry Bread

Earlier than you begin, toss the strawberries with a sprinkle of flour. It’s a helpful baking trick that retains fruit add-ins like strawberries, blueberries, and so forth. from sinking to the underside of truffles, muffins, and bread loaves.

Subsequent, it’s a matter of mixing the moist elements and progressively including the dry elements 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’ve 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 possibly can unfold it over the bread. It’s additionally doable to skinny it out with a little bit milk for those who’d favor extra of a glaze.

Recipe Suggestions

• Coat the strawberries in a little 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 prefer 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 don’t have 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-compulsory. Be happy 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 go away your strawberry bread plain and it’ll nonetheless style nice.

Learn how to Retailer

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