Mini Cranberry Pecan Loaves Food

CRANBERRY ORANGE MINI LOAVES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Grease bottoms and sides of 3 (5x3-inch) loaf pans with shortening; lightly flour. In medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt. In another medium bowl, mix sugar, oil and 2 tablespoons orange peel with wire whisk until blended. Stir in sour cream and eggs until well mixed. Add sugar mixture to flour mixture, gently stirring just until blended. Gently stir in 1/2 cup of the frozen cranberries.
• Divide batter evenly among pans. Sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup frozen cranberries evenly over loaves.
• Bake 45 to 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Run knife around sides of pans to loosen loaves; remove from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
• In small microwavable bowl, microwave frosting and 1 teaspoon orange peel uncovered on High 10 to 20 seconds; stir. Drizzle over loaves, allowing some to drizzle down sides.

LEMON-CRANBERRY MINI LOAVES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the lemon juice and zest. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to the creamed mixture alternately with milk. Fold in cranberries and walnuts. Pour into four greased 5-3/4x3x2-in. loaf pans. , Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. For glaze, whisk sugar and lemon juice until sugar is dissolved. Immediately spoon over bread. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.

MINI APPLE-CRANBERRY LOAVES

Steps:

• Shred 2 apples (about 1 cup); squeeze dry. Whisk 1 1/4 cups flour, 3/4 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon each baking powder and salt, and 1/2 teaspoon each baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg in a large bowl; add 1 cup dried cranberries. In another bowl, whisk 2 eggs, 1/2 cup each vegetable oil and sour cream, and 1 teaspoon vanilla; stir in the shredded apples. Fold the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until just combined, then divide the batter among 3 buttered mini loaf pans (about 6 by 3 inches each). Bake at 350 degrees F until a toothpick inserted into the centers comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Let cool on a rack.

CHRISTMAS CRANBERRY MINI LOAF GIFT BREAD RECIPE

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease 3 mini loaf pans.
• In large bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.
• Cut butter into thin slices and add to bowl. Break butter into mixture with fingers until mixture is crumbly.
• Stir in the brown sugar.
• Add chopped cranberries, milk, and eggs and stir. The batter should be thick, but not dry. If necessary, add more milk, a tablespoon at a time.
• Scrape batter into the greased mini loaf pans. Bake for 1 hour or until done.
• Turn loaves out and let cool on rack.
• In small bowl, mix the confectioners' sugar with a small amount of water to make the icing.
• Drizzle icing over the breads. Let icing harden before moving the breads.
• Serve and enjoy.

MINI CHERRY-PECAN STREUSEL LOAVES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour six mini loaf pans (each 5 3/4 by 3 inches, with a 2-cup capacity). Make streusel topping: In a bowl, mix streusel ingredients with fingertips until moist clumps form. Place in freezer.
• Make cherry-pecan batter: In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda. In a large bowl, whisk butter, sugar, sour cream, eggs, and vanilla until smooth. Mix in dry ingredients until moistened. Fold in dried cherries and pecans.
• Divide batter evenly among prepared pans; spread to fill corners. Place pans on a baking sheet. Bake 15 minutes, then remove from oven, and quickly sprinkle loaves with streusel topping.
• Return loaves to oven; bake until golden and a toothpick inserted in center comes out with only a few moist crumbs attached, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool loaves 10 minutes in pans; turn out of pans, and cool completely, streusel side up, on a rack.

LOW-FAT GLAZED CRANBERRY MINI LOAVES

Steps:

• Set oven to 350°F.
• Set oven rack to second-lowest position.
• Grease 2 mini loaf pans.
• Pick out any discolored cranberries and discard then chop coarsely.
• In a large bowl combine the flour with the next 5 ingredients, then mix in the cranberries.
• In a small bowl whisk together the egg with oil, 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons orange juice and vanilla.
• Add to the dry ingredients; using a wooden spoon mix JUST until combined (the batter will be thick, do not use an electric mixer for this).
• Divide the batter between the two mini loaf pans.
• Bake for 30-35 minutes or until the loaves test done.
• Cool loaves completely.
• For the glaze in a bowl whisk all glaze ingredients together until smooth adding in more sugar or milk until a fairly thick glazing consistency is achieved.
• Using a spoon drizzle the glaze over the top of the loaves.

CRANBERRY-APPLE MINI LOAVES

Steps:

• Grease four 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 1 1/2-inch individual loaf pans. In a small mixing bowl, stir together cranberry sauce, chopped nuts and orange peel. Set pans and cranberry mixture aside.
• In a medium mixing bowl, stir together flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, baking powder and allspice. Make a well in the center of the dry mixture.
• In another medium mixing bowl, combine the egg, shredded apple and cooking oil until well mixed. Add apple mixture all at once to the dry mixture. Stir just until moistened (batter should be lumpy).
• Pour HALF of the batter evenly into the prepared pans (use about 1/3 cup for each pan). Spoon about 2 tbl cranberry mixture on top of the batter in each pan. Top with remaining batter. Spoon the remaining cranberry mixture down the center of each loaf.
• Bake in a 350 degree oven for 35 to 40 minutes or until done. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
• Remove quick breads from pans. In a small mixing bowl, stir together powdered sugar and enough orange juice to make an icing of drizzling consistency. Drizzle over warm loaves.

MINI CRANBERRY-PECAN LOAVES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350.
• Butter a 9" pan or 3 small pans.
• In a large bowl, cream together butter, brown sugar till smooth. Add vanilla and salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, eggs orange juice and beat to combine.
• In another bowl mix flour, salt, soda, powder, add this to the creamed mixture and gently beat with spoon just till flour disappears. fold in berries and pecans. pour batter into pan and bake 50-60 minutes for large loaf or 30-35 minutes for small ones.
• The bread is done when toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool in pan 30 minutes then turn onto rack to cool completely. Then wrap.