My Top 10 Quick Bread Recipes
It would seem that you can throw just about anything into an 8×4-inch loaf pan and have some sweet smellin’ magic come out of your kitchen after an hour or so. What’s more, pulling a beautifully risen quick bread out of the oven is sure to make you feel like your a prime-time, super legit baker.
Here’s a peek at my favorite quick bread recipes.
Oh! Happy Wednesday to you. Also… you look pretty today. I like what you did with your hair.
Low Fat Oatmeal Banana Bread. Still moist. Still all sorts of delicious. I even counted the Weight Watchers points on this one. Whaaaat!? Yea. That happened.
Raspberry Almond Bread. Yes, after it’s baked the bread turns a touch blue from the raspberries. What’s the science on that? Can we get Bill Nye the Science Guy on this one?
Zucchini Sweet Potato Bread. Fresh grated zucchini. Raw grated sweet potato. It’s unique, full of spice and delicious.
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Banana Bread. It’s chocolate. It’s for breakfast. If this offends you… I’m not sure what you’re doing here. I mean that with love and respect.
Lemon Drenched Lemon Cakes. Ok… so maybe this is more of a pound cake recipe than a quick bread recipe. This cake is too good to pass up. Lemon plus lemon syrup plus cake. I vote: awesome.
Honey Cranberry Cornmeal Quick Bread. Have any leftover cranberries in your fridge? Me too.
Fresh Mango Bread. I never would have thought to put fresh mango in bread until Dorie Greenspan told me it was ok.
Vegan Pumpkin Walnut Bread. Dense and moist. Who says you need butter and eggs to make awesome bread!? Whoever they are… kick ‘em in the toe. They’re wrong.
Persimmon Bread. You are mighty strange persimmon bread, but I love you just the same.
Honey Whole Wheat Pound Cake. Dense. Nutty. It’ll charm your pants off. Be prepared.
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I’ve just realized I love quickbread, because I want to make each one of the 10 you just have highlighted!! They are so comforting, simple and delicious!
Wow!!! I want to bake them all !!!
Now I am hungry and want to eat bread. I just ate, you know. :-) Especially that chocolate banana bread looks delicious. How could anyone be offended by that? Really, those people would be crazy..
Hi Joy!
How do you get the quickbreads baked so prettily? They usually split down the middle — or worse, off-center! — while in the oven.
You’ve inspired me Joy…you Domestic Goddess you!!!
I’ve set myself a Top 10 QuickBread challenge. My mission, now that I’ve chosen to accept it, is to whip up one of your loaves each week until I’ve tried them all, starting tomorrow. My husband and baby boy are gonna LOVE this!!!
Cheers Em
Is it bad that I want to try all of them? Now? Can I go home and make the oatmeal banana bread? And the chocolate one? Oh please!!!! What is this whole job malarky anyway?!
The cranberry cornmeal one is amazing, especially crumbled into milk.
The raspberries turn blue in the cake due to a change in pH – probably more alkaline conditions. Similar to when red cabbage turns blue after cooking. (Check out Harold McGee for thrilling science information…)
Your hair also looks really pretty today :)
Thanks for all the lovely recipes.
The mango bread is ridiculously good. Could barely keep my hands off of it.
The banana oatmeal looks delish!
… I don’t even bake that much yet, but I’m very tempted to go downstairs to my kitchen and start right away. They all look so yummy!
I make that whole wheat cake and we love it. It’s very classy.
They look awesome! I can’t wait to try some of them. Thanks for sharing!
wow! amazing and yummy:)
YUM! I just recently made a chocolate banana bread-I don’t know that there’s anything more sinful for breakfast!
Chocolate banana bread with a big thick smear of peanut butter on it *starry eyes*
Now how am I suppose to decide which one to make first? You can’t do this to me! : )Well, maybe you can ….
And I love all of them…thanks for compiling them all here. You’re so right, nothing like a simple loaf pan bread to make you feel like a legit backer :-)
Great ideas, by the way, what do you think of bread machines? I own one and it helped me a lot. I’d love to hear your opinion!
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Sweet! Perfect! You read my mind. I bought some fresh cranberries the other day (week) for the first time.. thought about using them in the oatmeal-cherry-white-chocolate recipe instead of dried cranberries. I asked my mom about whether to use fresh or dry and she said to use dry in the cookies, and fresh in a loaf. Well, I didn’t have a cranberry loaf recipe in mind, so I tried some last night on my yogurt.. yeah.. tasty but kind of hurt my tummy!
Joy to the rescue!
Also you are the second person to compliment me on my hair today.. thanks!
Also also.. oatmeal-cranberry-dark chocolate cookies came out great! (got compliments on those too)
okay, why do we women just love loaves of freshed baked goodness? i blame loaves for all the extra me i carry around 9 months after my most recent baby!
All of the breads look yummy, but I LOVE the slice of wood that I’ve seen you use as a cutting board, serving platter, etc. Did you cut it yourself? Buy it? I’d like to make one from the fallen tree in my yard if I could. LOVE IT!
Oooh I love quick breads so much. Even though I make my own not so quick bread weekly too, there’s nothing like a quick bread to satisfy that mid-morning snack urge! Thanks for sharing!
Oh my stinkin’ heck!!! I want ALL of these NOW! =) Yum.
Oh… and thank you for noticing my new haircut. I like your sweater.
Oooooh, thanks for these wonderful recipes. I need some comfort breads during these long winter days.
Thank you~
These all look great! Thanks!
Quick bread was one of the very first things I learned to bake when I was little. Banana walnut was the flavor…it was awesome. I’m emotionally attached to quick bread. And this blog.
I’m all over the lemon pound cake!
Bill Nye? I’m not him. But I can answer your science question.
Cranberries, or more specifically the chemical found in them called cyanidin,is an acid/base indicator. Remember from science class looking at the pH of different chemicals and using some kind of indicator to tell you what was going on? In my class it was boiled purple cabbage. But cranberries do it too. When they turn blue it’s because the pH has gotten higher (more basic). In a batter, it’s usually from the baking soda or baking powder that we use for leavening.
I’m on a New Year’s diet, so I can’t eat the breads.. may as well contribute somehow!
It’s good to know that you like my hair, even in it’s disheveled just-got-outta-bed form. Joy, you really live up to your name! Good lookin’ breads, too!
Dear Lord – cranberries, mangos, bananas – where to begin? I love quick breads – and this post has some great new ones that I have to try. Thanks for sharing!
I think you read my mind when I took bananas out to thaw last night!! thanks so much!!!
Ah Yes….The beloved quick bread. I am a big fan as are so many others. I even made 250 loaves of banana walnut bread for a client as Christmas gifts.
I can’t wait to try these recipes. Thanks for sharing and your hair looks lovely today too. :)
YUMMY! I love doing quick breads because they’re so easy, and you do feel like a star when they come out all warm and delicious. I do some raspberry muffins and they turn blue too. When you get Bill on that, let me know :) I’ll be trying several of these! Thanks :)
I’m so glad you shared these today! I have raspberries, mangoes AND cranberries I need to use up and these breads look delicious. Thanks for sharing, can’t wait to try them.
What a great post. I want to make like ALL of them right now.
Drats…I just realised I am one banana short of a banana bread. *L* Such scrumminess. (I’m pretty sure that’s a word. Dig it. :))
You are really off to a very Joyful 2010! Every post brightens my day . . . although I had to giggle when I read the note about my hair, since I just got out of the shower and it’s dripping straggily onto my shoulders at the moment.
Thanks for the recipes – Yum! I am making at least one of these today!
And you look good, too!
i love that cutting board, the cross-section of the tree trunk. where did u get it?
I need to dig out my loaf pans and get to baking! After my soup obsession has passed!
“It’s chocolate. It’s for breakfast. If this offends you… I’m not sure what you’re doing here. I mean that with love and respect. ”
Ha! Ha! Ha! Joy, you make my day…all the time. I am definitely in the right place. Thanks for sharing more great recipes. I hope to whip some of this chocolate chocolate chip banana bread up for breakfast this weekend. =)
These are the best recipes ever!!Thank you! Can’t wait to try the Honey Whole Wheat Pound Cake. Yum…yum…
I made the cranberry cornmeal quick bread last week. It was supposed to go to my folks as a happy-day present, but it didn’t make it out the door. So good…. and now I’ve got my eye on the raspberry almond. My husband loves you by the way :-)
I love quick breads myself. I agree that they are easy and they come out wonderful (usually). I have a choc chip banana bread that is always a pleaser, in fact, I made them into muffins last night and took to our staff meeting this morning. I tried the cranberry cornbread over the holidays and it was a hit. Can’t wait to try some more! LOVE IT.
oh delicious. I love quick breads. I have some great recipes for pumpkin and banana bread and now I can add these! Thanks Joy.
I love making quick breads, and they disappear so quickly in a household of teens! I think I need to go home and make some tonight to combat the cold and snow here….:)
Oh man I love quick breads too! They’re so easy and leave your home smelling like so much goodness. Your banana bread is one I pull out often, but I really want to try all these!
Joy you can’t do this to me while I’m at the office, it’s not fair!!! These all look incredible, but I think I’m starting with the vegan pumpkin walnut bread. Have a fab Wednesday!