Blue Raspberry Bread with Orange Glaze
Equipment
- 9" x 5" loaf pan
Ingredients
Bread
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 T butter melted
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup blueberries
- 1/2 cup raspberries
Orange Glaze
- 1/4 cup confectioners sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 T butter
- 3-4 T orange juice
- fresh orange zest [optional]
Instructions
Bread
- Mix all ingredients, except berries, together in a large bowl with a fork, mixing until combined and moistened, but do not overmix.
- Pour 1/2 of batter into a greased glass loaf pan. Top batter with 1/2 of berries.
- Pour in remaining batter and top with remaining berries.
- Gently push berries down into batter with the back of a spoon.
- Bake at 325 for 50-65 minutes, checking center with a cake tester, until cake is done.
- Let cool 30 minutes and remove from pan.
- Poke holes all over top of bread with a toothpick and slowly pour glaze over warm bread. Sprinkle with orange zest.
Orange Glaze
- Melt butter in a measuring cup. Add vanilla and sugar and stir.
- Add orange juice, 1 T at a time, until glaze is desired consistency.
Notes
this recipe can easily be doubled for 2 loaves, one for now and freeze one for later