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Easy Orange Cranberry Bread with fresh Ocean Spray Cranberries

Cranberry Orange Bread

Citrus Orange and tangy Ocean Spray cranberries with a sweet orange glaze make this Cranberry Orange Bread a perfect breakfast all year long!

Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Keyword bread, Breakfast, Cranberry, Loaf, Orange
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 55 minutes
Resting Time 10 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings 12 slices
Author Just a Dash

Ingredients

Cranberry Orange Loaf

  • 1/3 cup olive oil
  • 2/3 cup orange juice
  • 2/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 tbsp orange zest *zest of 1 orange
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1-1/2 cups fresh cranberries

Glaze

  • 1/2 cup icing (confectioners) sugar
  • 1 tbsp orange juice
  • 1/2 tsp orange zest

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit

  2. coat 1lb loaf pan with a thin layer of butter and line the bottom and up the sides with parchment leaving enough to use as handles.

    parchment lined bread pan for Easy Orange Cranberry Bread

  3. Place olive oil, orange juice, zest, sugar and eggs in a mixing bowl and mix on medium speed for 2 minutes until well incorporated, set aside.

    Moist Orange Cranberry Loaf

  4. Mix dry ingredients together, flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt, set aside.

  5. Rinse cranberries and drain off water. Take 1 tbsp of the flour mixture and stir into the cranberries to coat them with flour, set aside.

    Flour coated fresh cranberries for a moist orange cranberry bread

  6. Add half of dry ingredients into orange mixture and mix until almost incorporated. Add second half of flour mixture and mix gently until only some flour remains.

  7. Add cranberries into the mixture and hand mix them into the mixture. Take care not to over mix.

    Easy Orange Cranberry Bread

  8. Pour mixture into lined bread pan and smooth it out before placing in the oven for 50-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.

Orange Glaze

  1. Whisk together icing sugar orange juice and orange zest. After the bread cools for atleast 10 minutes pour over the bread before serving or storing