Cherry Bread
Packed with cherries and covered with a sweet cherry almond glaze, this cherry bread will be a treat any time of day.
Servings: 16
Calories: 162kcal
Ingredients
Bread
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- ½ cup milk
- ¼ cup maraschino cherry juice
- 2 large eggs
- ½ cup sour cream
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder
- 16 ounces maraschino cherries, chopped
Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 to 3 tablespoons heavy whipping cream, or milk
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- 1 to 2 drops cherry extract, or 1 tablespoon maraschino juice
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine sugar, almond extract, vanilla, vegetable oil, milk, cherry juice, eggs, and sour cream. Whisk to combine well.
- In a separate bowl, sift together flour, salt, and baking powder.
- Drain maraschino cherries from the rest of the juice (you’ve already used ¼ cup of the juice in the bread batter) and coarsely chop the cherries into halves and/or quarters.
- Sprinkle 1 to 2 tablespoons of the flour mixture over the cherries and toss to combine.
- Stir the remaining flour mixture into the milk/eggs mixture. Stir just until wet and dry ingredients are combined - lumps and streaks of flour in the batter are fine.
- Gently fold the cherries into the batter to distribute evenly, but do not overmix.
- Pour batter into a greased or parchment-lined 9x5 loaf pan.
- Bake for 55 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the bread comes out clean. Cover bread with aluminum foil after 45 minutes to prevent it from over-browning on top.
- Remove from the oven and cool. (You can turn the bread out onto a wire cooling rack after it has cooled for an initial 10 minutes in the pan.)
- Whisk together the ingredients for the glaze. Drizzle the glaze over the bread. The glaze will set, dry to the touch after about 30 minutes.
Notes
- The cherry juice will color the bread a pinkish/peach tint. For more color, you can add a couple of drops of red food coloring.
- Coating the cherries in a little bit of flour will help keep them suspended in the bread while baking, so you will have a nice distribution throughout.
- Oven temperatures vary and may need to be recalibrated periodically to ensure they are accurate. Make sure to check your bread at the lower end of the recommended baking time.
- Make sure to let the bread cool fully before glazing.
- Place bread on a wire rack before pouring the glaze on top so that any excess glaze will run through the rack rather than leaving a puddle around your bread.
Nutrition
Calories: 162kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 30mg | Sodium: 93mg | Potassium: 93mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 119IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 41mg | Iron: 1mg