Best Cornmeal Cranberry Bread Recipes

CRANBERRY-CORNMEAL QUICK BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter in a medium skillet over medium heat. Add 3 tablespoons sugar, stirring until dissolved. Add cranberries, and stir to coat. Cook until cranberries begin to pop, about 1 minute. Pour into a 5-by-9-inch loaf pan, distributing cranberries evenly to cover bottom. Let cool.
• Whisk together flour, cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Beat remaining 1 1/2 sticks butter and 1/2 cup sugar with a mixer on medium speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. With machine running, add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Reduce speed to low, and slowly add flour mixture, mixing until combined. Fold in ginger. Pour mixture into pan over cranberries. Gently smooth top using an offset spatula.
• Place pan on a rimmed baking sheet, and bake until a tester inserted into center comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Transfer pan to a wire rack; let cool for 15 minutes. Invert pan to remove bread. Let cool completely on wire rack, cranberry side up.

BREAD MACHINE CRANBERRY CORNMEAL BREAD

Steps:

• Measure carefully, placing all ingredients except cranberries in bread machine pan in the order recommended by the manufacturer. Add cranberries at the Raisin/Nut signal or 5 to 10 minutes before last kneading cycle ends.
• Select Basic/White cycle. Use Medium or Light crust color. Do not use delay cycles. Remove baked bread from pan, and cool on wire rack.

CRANBERRY-CORNMEAL QUICK BREAD

Steps:

• Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350°F.
• Spray 9x5x3-inch metal loaf pan with nonstick spray.
• Whisk both flours, cornmeal, Splenda, salt, and baking powder in large bowl.
• Whisk buttermilk, melted margarine, maple syrup, egg whites, and extract in medium bowl.
• Add buttermilk mixture to flour mixture; stir just until blended.
• Stir in chopped pecans and the cranberries. Spoon batter into pan.
• Arrange pecan halves in row down center of batter.
• Bake bread until top is golden brown and a tester inserted into center of bread comes out clean, tenting bread loosely with foil if browning too quickly, about 1 hour 10 minutes. Cool in pan on rack 20 minutes. Turn out onto rack; cool.

HONEY CRANBERRY CORNMEAL QUICK BREAD

Steps:

• Arrange a rack in the center of the oven and preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour one 9×5x3-inch loaf pan, or two slightly smaller loaf pans. I think mine are 8×4x3-inches and I made two smaller loaves. Set aside the greased and floured loaf pans. In a large bowl, whisk together both flours, cornmeal, sugar, salt and baking powder. In a smaller bowl whisk together honey, eggs, buttermilk, melted butter and vanilla extract. Add the buttermilk mixture to the flour mixture and stir just until blended. Fold in the cranberries and walnuts. Divide batter between two smaller loaf pans or into one large loaf pan. Spread evenly. Add the whole walnut halves and place in preheated oven. For smaller loaves bake for 40-50 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the center of the loaf comes of clean. For the larger loaf, bake for 60-70 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean. Cool loaves in pan on a wire rack for 20 minutes. Invert onto a plate or board. Serve warm with butter or wrap and freeze for future you.

CRANBERRY-CORNMEAL QUICK BREAD

Steps:

• Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350°F. Spray 9x5x3-inch metal loaf pan with nonstick spray. Whisk both flours, cornmeal, sugar, salt, and baking powder in large bowl. Whisk buttermilk, melted butter, maple syrup, eggs, and extract in medium bowl. Add buttermilk mixture to flour mixture; stir just until blended. Stir in 3/4 cup chopped pecans and cranberries. Spoon batter into pan. Arrange pecan halves in row down center of batter.
• Bake bread until top is golden brown and paring knife inserted into center of bread comes out clean, tenting bread loosely with foil if browning too quickly, about 1 hour 10 minutes. Cool in pan on rack 20 minutes. Turn out onto rack; cool.
• A LITTLE AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Wrap bread in foil and store at room temperature.
• FURTHER AHEAD: Can be made and then frozen up to 2 weeks ahead. Wrap in foil, then place in resealable plastic bag.
• *White whole wheat flour is milled from 100 percent hard white wheat. It contains all of the germ and bran (and nutritional value) of regular whole wheat, but has a naturally lighter color and milder flavor. It's available at some supermarkets and specialty foods stores and from kingarthurflour.com.

CORNMEAL CRANBERRY BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl (flours- sugar).
• Mix buttermilk, eggs, melted butter, vanilla and maple syrup in a small bowl.
• Add liquid ingredients to dry, mixing with a fork.
• Add in pecans and dried fruit of choice.
• Spray a loaf pan with cooking spray, bake for 1 hour or add 10 minutes, or until done.
• Cool on rack for 20 minutes, turn out of pan.