Description
Have your house smell like the holiday season when you bake this Whole Grain Orange Cranberry Bread. Bake loaves as holiday gifts that your friends and family will love and they won’t even know it’s lightened up!
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups white whole wheat flour
- ⅓ cup sugar
- ¼ tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 2 oranges, juiced and zest (reserving 1 tbsp juice)
- ½ cup milk
- 2 tbsp plain Greek yogurt
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1½ cups fresh cranberries, chopped
- For the glaze:
- 1 tbsp reserved orange juice
- 1 tbsp powdered sugar, sifted
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Spray a loaf pan with cooking spray, set aside.
- In a medium bowl, sift together white whole wheat flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
- In a large bowl, with an electric mixer, beat together orange juice, milk, yogurt, eggs, and vanilla extract. Mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients slowly, until just combined. Fold in cranberries.
- Bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes, until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center, comes out clean.
- Let cool on a rack. Meanwhile whisk together the reserved orange juice and powdered sugar. Drizzle on top of the loaf. Slice and enjoy!
Keywords: quickbread, holiday, orange cranberry
