Healthier Cranberry Orange Bread
Healthier Cranberry Orange Bread is absolutely delicious! It is moist, packed with fresh cranberries, and topped with an orange glaze!
Ingredients
- 1 cup maple syrup
- ¾ cup light olive oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 large eggs (room temperature)
- 1 cup sour cream (room temperature)
- ¼ cup orange juice (room temperature)
- Zest of one large orange
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 ¾ cups white whole wheat flour
- 1 ½ cups cranberries
- 1 teaspoon white whole wheat flour (for cranberries)
Glaze (optional):
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice (or to reach desired consistency)
- ½ teaspoon orange zest
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 F and line a 8×4 loaf pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, toss the cranberries with 1 teaspoon of flour. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the oil, eggs, vanilla, maple syrup, sour cream, orange juice, and orange zest and beat together with a hand-held blender on medium speed for 2-3 minutes.
- Then, in another bowl, combine salt, baking powder, cinnamon and flour. Add flour mixture to the batter 1/3 at a time, letting the flour incorporate with each addition and continue mixing just until well combined. Fold cranberries into batter.
- Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake until golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 75 minutes. Remove from the oven. When the bread has sat for about 15 minutes, transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Glaze: mix together orange juice, orange zest and powdered sugar. If needed, add more orange juice or powdered sugar until you reach the desired consistency. Pour glaze over bread.