Tart cranberries and sweet orange juice combine to make this Cranberry Orange Bread that is perfect for breakfast or brunch, or even for dessert!
Photos Updated January 2015
I know that cranberry and orange are more of a Christmas/holiday flavor combination, but what do you do when you have the majority of a bag of cranberries left from the Yule Log Cake from last month’s Daring Baker’s challenge? I didn’t want them to go to waste, but my husband doesn’t like cranberries, so I had to make something that I could easily take to work unless I wanted to eat it all myself! I chose this quick bread since I also had a box of oranges that we were making our way through.
This bread came together easily and quickly. My one hint when making a quick bread is to not use your stand mixer. Sure, it’s easier, but a bread like this will be more tender the less you mix it, and I don’t know about you, but I tend to like to mix more in my stand mixer! The original recipe called for walnuts, but I substituted pecans because that is what I had.
The morning after I made this, I was wrapping it up to take to work, but decided to ask my cranberry-hating-husband if he wanted me to at least leave him a slice. He un-enthusiastically said yes, so I kept one slice aside and brought the rest to work. But at work it was left virtually untouched. Yes – I work with a bunch of nut haters, and most would not even take a second look at it since it had nuts in it. At the end of the day, half of the loaf was still there (note to self – don’t even bring it to work if it has nuts!!) so I wrapped it up and took it home. I really liked it, so I figured I would finish it off myself. When I got home, my husband commented that he really liked the bread!! This bread had converted a cranberry hater!!
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- 2 cups flour
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- grated zest of 1 large orange
- ⅔ cup fresh orange juice
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 1¼ cups fresh cranberries
- ½ cup nuts, chopped
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Line a 9x5-inch loaf pan with parchment paper and spray with nonstick cooking spray.
- Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together in a large bowl. Stir in the orange zest. Make a well in the center and add the orange juice, eggs and vegetable oil. Stir gently, just until almost combined. Fold in the cranberries and nuts, making sure you don’t over mix the batter.
- Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan. Bake in the preheated oven until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean, about 45 minutes.
- Let the bread cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then remove to a cooling rack to cool completely.
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Nut haters! don’t you hate them?! Your bread looks wonderful, and it proves that it was because the hubby liked it!
I’m crazy for cranberry-orange flavors! Thanks for the recipe!
Just like my man( not liking cranberries). I made a chocolate chip, cranberry, orange pound cake for his coworkers and they loved it recently. Great combo and good use of cranberries. I still have more in the freezer.
this is really a lovely looking loaf! I LOVE cranberries and I really like the look of this recipe, I’m gonna bookmark this for future reference x
Pfft nuthaters. They’re like anti-chocolate people – I just don’t get it. At least your hubby tries things, sometimes thats the hardest thing with fussyeaters, they wont’ even try. Well done on convertin!
Pfft nuthaters. They’re like anti-chocolate people – I just don’t get it. At least your hubby tries things, sometimes thats the hardest thing with fussyeaters, they wont’ even try. Well done on convertin!
That bread looks delicious. I love the orange cranberry combination.
And yeah, I don’t get nut haters either.
cranberry looks wonderful in bread! not a popular ingredients in my kitchen, but surely interesting to try out!!
Nut haters? But nuts are so good! Orange and cranberry are a great combo and the pecans make it that much better. Nice looking bread!
This looks so good and easy. I’m scared of baking my own bread, but I think I could handle this one.
All of your recipes are fantastic! 🙂 Thanks for sharing.
Oh Deborah, I was just thinking about making cranberry orange muffins with the bag in my freezer! But now I think I’ll try your quick loaf.
I think your co-workers are, well, um ‘NUTS’. I love all those flavors. Glad your husband liked the bread.
Hallelujah! You converted him.
Your co-workers are crazy! That bread looks so good. They are not foodies. I have the same problem at my work. (Hope they aren’t reading this) I don’t bother bringing stuff in, anymore.
Pecans are better than walnuts, anyway.
Wow! Looks so yummy!
I have a cranberry bread recipe also, which uses puree pumpkin, but I’ve never gotten around to trying it! Well, the way I drooled over your pictures, I just know what will be coming out of my kitchen tomorrow!
Love the colors and the flavors, Deb. I have never tried fresh cranberries but have tried the dried ones. Delicious!
Nice colors in this bread and a superb combination of flavors.I could go for a slice or two with my tea!
Yum! And its so pretty!
cranberry and orange are always nice together.
Looks so yummy! Orange and Cranberry are a match made in heaven. Glad your husband found it yummy.
Hope you’re keeping warm through our SLC deep freeze!
This sounds great. What is up with the folks you work with anyway? Don’t they know how good nuts are for them? This makes me realize I never posted a cranberry nut bread I made before Christmas. Hilarious!
Convert bread – love it!
errrm….I’m a nut hater. Please don’t hate me.
Almonds, pistachios or hazelnuts terrific. Peanuts, walnuts, pecans or anything else, not for me.
Otherwise this bread looks great, and nuts are easy to leave out.
Are you kidding? Whip out this combo ANY time for me!
this looks so yummy! i’ve been looking for some good loaf recipes, and this is definitely going on the list.
once i brought a marble cake to work, and i was like wtf people! no one was eating it! i felt so rejected, haha, until i brought cookies in the next week and they were gobbled up. so i came to the conclusion, no more cakes at work.
This looks soooo good. I can try it with other fruit combos too right?
Hmm maybe I should try this bread as I don’t really like cranberries either. Saving this recipe!
Thanks for visiting again. I also made a sweet bread over the weekend. Yours looks delicious. I hope to post shortly. Thanks for the encouragement.
how can anyone say no to these???
the flavours sound wonderful.
Yum – cranberry and orange is a great combination.
Be a little more tolerant…some people are allergic to nuts and some have health issues (diverticulitus) and cannot eat nuts.