Crazy Good Cranberry Bread Food

CRAZY GOOD CRANBERRY BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the first five ingredients: cut in the butter until crumbly.
• In a small bowl, whisk the egg, orange juice and peel. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in the cranberries and raisins. Transfer to a greased 8 inches by 4 inches loaf pan.
• For the Streusel:.
• Combine brown sugar and flour; cut in butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over batter. Bake at 350 degrees F for 55-65 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes in pan before removing onto a wire rack. Let cool off completely.
• For Glaze:.
• Combine confectioners' sugar and orange juice and stir until smooth, drizzle over cooled bread.

CRANBERRY ORANGE QUICKBREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a food processor combine the flour, sugars, salt, baking soda and butter. Pulse, pulse, pulse until the mixture resembles finely grated cheese. Add the orange zest, juice and the egg. Pulse, pulse, pulse until the mixture is just combined. Remove to a bowl and stir in the diced orange and cranberries.
• Grease and flour the loaf pan and add the batter. Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Rotate the pan halfway through the cooking time to insure even cooking.
• When done let cool for about 20 minutes and remove from loaf pan. Let cool completely before cutting.
• Yummy!

CREAMY CRANBERRY BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Cut the crusts off the bread and cut into 1/2-inch cubes. You should have about 3 1/2 cups of cubes. Arrange on a baking sheet and toast in the oven until light golden brown, about 10 minutes. Watch carefully to make sure they do not brown too much; set aside to cool. Leave the oven on.
• In a saucepan, heat the half-and-half, cream, salt, and vanilla bean over medium heat, stirring occasionally to make sure the mixture doesn't burn or stick to the bottom of the pan. When the cream mixture reaches a fast simmer (do not let it boil), turn off the heat. Set aside to infuse 10 to 15 minutes.
• In a large mixing bowl, whisk the eggs and sugar together. Whisking constantly, gradually add the hot cream mixture. Strain into a large bowl to smooth the mixture and remove the vanilla bean. Add the bread cubes, toss well and let soak until absorbed. Fold the mixture occasionally to ensure even soaking.
• In a small saucepan, heat the orange juice to a simmer. Add the cranberries and simmer until plumped and softened, about 5 minutes. Drain and reserve 1/4 cup for garnish.
• Fold in remaining 3/4 cup of cranberries into bread pudding mixture. Divide the mixture among 6 ramekins, custard cups, or dessert cups, (or use a deep baking dish). Divide the soaked bread among the dishes, then pour any remaining custard over the bread. Dot with remaining cranberries.
• Arrange the puddings in a hot water bath. Bake until set and golden brown on top, about 30 minutes for individual puddings and 40 to 45 minutes for 1 large pudding. Serve warm or chilled, dusted with confectioners' sugar.

CRANBERRY BREAD

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350º.
• Grease bottoms only of 2 loaf pans, 8 1/2 × 4 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches or 9 × 5 × 3 inches.
• Mix cranberries, sugar, oil, milk, lemon peel, vanilla and eggs in large bowl.
• Stir in remaining ingredients.
• Pour into pans.
• Bake 50 to 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool 10 minutes.
• Loosen sides of loaves from pans; remove from pans.
• Cool completely on wire rack before slicing.
• Store tightly wrapped in refrigerator up to 1 week.