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.
gillian smith
these are cakes, not breads.
Yvonne (Bread Fun)
What a great site. It is so beautiful. Your pictures of bread look so real and delicious. I could just take a big bite :.)) MUM Good!!!!
Yvonne (Bread Fun)
Wow!!!!! What beautiful baked goods. A perfect picture of scrumptious tasty delights. All I need is a cold glass of milk. I just died and went to Bread Heaven!!!!!
Jacki
Very nice website. Recipes look awesome and the pictures are beautiful. I bake for a living and cannot wait to try some of these
delightful recipes for my family. Thank you for sharing them with us.
Emily
I used the Honey Cranberry Cornmeal Quick Bread recipe with my 8th graders in a lab on quick breads. I was tired of them all making cinnamon bread, so I switched it up and had them all make different loaves to share and try. This one was a hit, surprisingly! They looked at me funny when I first showed them the recipe, but after they ate it, they came back for seconds!
Bernie
Greetings to all,
I am after a simple bread for sandwiches recipe,please?
Myrna
Yummy! Can’t wait to try all of ’em!
I love your wit!! :-)
Hannah
The rasberry almond bread looks FANTASTIC!
Michelle
Only 10?? Aww shucks. I scrolled through secretly hoping the photos would be endless…..Mmm they all look sooo good!
Gretchen
Joy, you are just too sweet. You look pretty, too. Its nice to hear, even if you can’t really see me! :) Going to make the low-fat Oatmeal Banana bread. Looks perfect for New Year’s resolutions.
Annice
Hey joy!
Just wondering, what’s the major difference between a quick bread and a pound cake? I get confused!
Donna
It’s sunday morning and I skipped church….looking for a good bread recipe and came across your page and boy am I happy… I’m making the lemon drenched lemon cake and the either the cheddar black pepper biscuits or the paprika cheddar drop biscuits and cannot wait. It all looks and sounds great. I will let you know how it turns out. Thanks
Lulu
This is a great blog! I think I’ll try making the zucchini and sweet potato bread tonight so I can use up some of my market finds before heading out on vacation.
Kate
Joy, you are truly a delight!
All of these look amazing, shall have to try them all!
The Zucchini one will be the perfect way to use up the crazy amounts sprouting in our garden!
x
naomi
I now can eat and enjoy banana bread again. I cannot wait to try this!
Colleen
Oh Joy, I just love you. You bring back memories of one of my most favorite college roommates. I need to cook again but I’m pregnant and tired, so I will just pretend like you are here to bake for me. Thanks for bringing a smile to my day!
Peggy
Joy,
I love you and I love your site and have never failed with any of your recipes. I think, though that you are being a little unfair in this post.
Low-fat banana bread AND chocolate chocolate-chip banana “bread” in the same post ?? I had a lot of bananas and I made them both…
Oh the poor plain wholesome good sister overshadowed by the buxom, flashy rock-your-world sister. I can only hope the sensible one is strong enough to handle the comparison. I’m taking them both to work tomorrow in a sort of social experiment. Fingers crossed for the plain sister !!
Thanks for a wonderful site !! Peggy
micah rose
I LIKE!!!
Logan
I’m slightly obsessed with the sweet potato zucchini bread.
jenn
my kids are going to love you for these recipes. we usually turn bread recipes into muffins instead of loaves and they eat them for breakfast and/or pack them in their lunches. plus we’ll have so much fun making a mess in the kitchen together.
you look pretty too!
Terresa Wellborn
Beautiful bread. Lemon drenched lemon cakes, where do I sign up for that??
Mary @ butter + cream
Hi Joy! I made the honey cornmeal cranberry cake last night and it’s amazing! The honey and the cornmeal are perfect together, and the cranberries give it just the tart contrast that cornbread needs. We’re flying out of town in the morning, and it’ll be just the perfect thing to munch on with a cup of coffee on the plane. Have a great weekend!
Dee
made the banana oatmeal bread last night. Very tasty for “Weight Watchers”, I might add a little more bananas or oil next time, needs a bit more moisture. Very good with a little margarine though! Love the bread recipes! Can’t wait to get through them all!
Erika from The Pastry Chef At Home
Fresh mango bread is calling my name! What kind of wackadoo could possibly be offended by chocolate for breakfast?!
Cynthia
This page is definitely bookmarked.
Kristin Kunoff
And thanks for commenting on my hair…I needed that=)
Krista
Wow! You’re a baking machine! These all look delectable :-)
Joy
Joy,
The Strawberry version of your raspberry bread is in the oven here in London and I love your blog it keeps me going at work checking in on all your georgous recipes!
Keep it going
xx Joy
Casey @SpicyandSweet
Oooh…looks FABULOUS!!
Tina
Oh my goodness!! They all look so scrum deli umpious!!!! :)
Thanks Joy! I love visiting your blog – it always makes me smile. :)
Now, which one to make first? I’m thinking the chocolate, chocolate banana one ~ yum, yum!!(I think this one will also delight my two girls!
Katie @ cozydelicious
Oh wow! Joy, you have amazingly perfect timing (well, for me anyway). I’m cooking up a storm to stock my sister-in-law’s pantry since they just had a baby this week and I realized that I can’t possibly leave out a quick bread! Your zucchini and sweet potato bread looks amazing, I might have to try that one. But the lemon is calling to me too. Maybe I’ll do both tonight! Thank you!
elizabeth
made the honey cranberry bread to rid my fridge of the holiday berries – it is FANTASTIC! thank you – a recipe I will keep.
Dolce
Made the honey whole wheat Pound Cake last Thursday. Need I say by Sunday, it was gone?? Will post it on my blog with a link to your recipe :)
Meg
Your new site design is completely adorable. I love bees!
Sam
made the zucchini and sweet potato bread yesterday… so delicious!! just a side note – i used 2 C of king arthur whole wheat flour, 1/2 cup of brown sugar and generous 1/2 cup agave nectar, one small zucchini and one medium/large sweet potato. no cloves but the bread came out dense and moist and amazing. thank you!
Saffron
That oatmeal banana bread is definetely calling my name!
Sook
Thank you for the round up! I love baking bread and everything looks so great!
lucy
awesome post joy. cannot wait to try them ALL.
Shaina @ FoodforMyFamily
The oatmeal banana bread is calling my name.
Hillary @ Nutrition Nut on the Run
I heart quick breads & your updated layout!
Wendy
Oh wow, I’m so glad you posted this. I’ve been wanting to bake some quick breads and now I have a whole bunch to try. I am really intrigued by the persimmon bread and the zucchini sweet potato bread. I think I might back one tomorrow night.
Misty
I do believe I see that cranberry bread in my future, once I’ve finished off my batch of pumpkin cranberry muffins. And I do believe I’m on a cranberry kick lately!
Harmony Loves
oh my! I am so making some of these. They look deeelish!
Michelle T.
Joy, these look fantastic! I’ve tried your lemon pound cake (and it truly is wonderful) and can’t wait to try these other ones (esp the chocolate/banana!).
MT
Michelle
Thank you for the WW/honey pound cake recipe. I have been looking for that exact thing!
Alexandra
Just made the cranberry cornmeal bread… Yum! After having starred the initial posting, I knew I had to make it tonight after seeing it again here. It’s not as sweet as I expected it to be but that’s okay; it makes eating it for breakfast much more legit! Thanks!
Carmen Henesy
I have now downloaded all these recipes and put them in my computer. I can’t wait to start baking. My boys are going to be so happy.
Katya Simkhovich
I’m making all of these. This weekend. So if I have a three day weekend, I could do three a day, and ummmm….
Bottom line, I need to make all of these. Soon.
Keri
Joy! I’ve been wanting to make your honey whole wheat pound cake for months, and tonight after reading your post, I decided to make it. Man am I glad!! This is one of the best cake/muffins I’ve ever had!
peachkins
I bet they all taste great!
The Waspy Redhead
These all look amazing! I have the worst luck with quickbreads. The lemon looks especially yummy.
Season
Just what I was in the mood for. Now I wish I would have bought those loaf pans at Sur La Table that are on sale.
And about the raspberries turning the bread blue, I just read about that in my new cookbook, The Art & Soul of Baking by Cindy Mushet. She says “When there is not enough acidity in the batter, you’ll see a ring of blue around the fruit pieces… However, if the batter is made with an acidic liquid, such as buttermilk, the problem is averted. This is one of the reasons that muffin/bread batters contain buttermilk instead of milk.”
Meredith
i love quick breads. I have made a few from this list and loved them. I will soon make the rest and i know i will love them too. Thanks Joy. Off to buy a few more loaf pans…. :)
Nastassia
I love the Lo-fat Oatmeal Banana Bread! I made it last week and it didn’t last long it was so delicious! I can’t wait to try all of these other quick breads =)
Kelly
I’m so trying the lowfat oatmeal banana bread. New Year’s resolutions and all. Thanks!
Rohini
I love how calling a cake a bread makes it okay to eat it for breakfast with butter to boot!!
Your recipes are wonderful as is your website, a real joy! Thank you :-)
Liska
I wish you baked one of the sourdough breads. It would be a real thing to see them on your blog. I’m sure they’d be stunning.
Dani H
I love quick breads. Just made a loaf of banana bread last night. Thanks for providing such a variety. The Goddess of Baking rocks! Hope you’re having a good day, too.
Stef
one of my favorite posts as of yet! i love how accomplished i feel when pulling something splendid out of the oven – and i am so glad that it’s a shared feeling :)
and thanks for the compliment, joy! you look really great today, too!
Evie
One of these days, I’ll try them all! Thank you.
Janet
I love it. Yum. I know what I’m doing this weekend – buying a new loaf pan.
PS – My hair looks horrible today, but I appreciate the sentiment. ;)
PPS – Can’t wait to hear about the Sonoma class details!!
Jen
Joy,
Thanks for two things…the great post and the lovely compliment on my hair! How did you know i did it differently today?
Your Sweet Potato Zucchini Bread is my go to bread that pleases everyone! I must try some of the others soon!
Happy Wednesday to you, too!
Anne @ the doctor takes a wife
Super pumped to try these :) They look great!!
Food Hunter
Wow these all look so good. I’m not sure which one to try first.
Mary @ butter + cream
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!
Jacqui@So Good & Tasty
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!
Lisa
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….:)
Laura
oh delicious. I love quick breads. I have some great recipes for pumpkin and banana bread and now I can add these! Thanks Joy.
shirley
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.
Madeleine
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 :-)
Peggy Anderson
These are the best recipes ever!!Thank you! Can’t wait to try the Honey Whole Wheat Pound Cake. Yum…yum…
Abra
“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. =)
Meghan
I need to dig out my loaf pans and get to baking! After my soup obsession has passed!
tia
i love that cutting board, the cross-section of the tree trunk. where did u get it?
tess
Thanks for the recipes – Yum! I am making at least one of these today!
And you look good, too!
Kim
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.
Melanie
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. :))
Eliana
What a great post. I want to make like ALL of them right now.
Michele
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.
Alaina
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 :)
The Cookie Girl
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. :)
Cor
I think you read my mind when I took bananas out to thaw last night!! thanks so much!!!
Scate
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!
Jelli Bean
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!
Bextoronto
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!
Estela @ Weekly Bite
I’m all over the lemon pound cake!
Jen-
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.
2frugalfoodies
These all look great! Thanks!
Monique
Thank you~
JoAnn
Oooooh, thanks for these wonderful recipes. I need some comfort breads during these long winter days.
Wendy Darling
Oh my stinkin’ heck!!! I want ALL of these NOW! =) Yum.
Oh… and thank you for noticing my new haircut. I like your sweater.
Beth @ 990 Square
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!
Julie
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!
myrna
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!
Melanie
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)
Silvia
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!
Love
shalini
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 :-)
emily
Now how am I suppose to decide which one to make first? You can’t do this to me! : )Well, maybe you can ….
Jennifer
YUM! I just recently made a chocolate banana bread-I don’t know that there’s anything more sinful for breakfast!
Kris
Chocolate banana bread with a big thick smear of peanut butter on it *starry eyes*
zarpandit
wow! amazing and yummy:)
Monica
They look awesome! I can’t wait to try some of them. Thanks for sharing!
Mama JJ
I make that whole wheat cake and we love it. It’s very classy.
Vicki Schmidt
… 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!
Jessica @ How Sweet It Is
The banana oatmeal looks delish!
Stephanie
The mango bread is ridiculously good. Could barely keep my hands off of it.
Karen B
Your hair also looks really pretty today :)
Thanks for all the lovely recipes.
Rachel
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…)
Linds
The cranberry cornmeal one is amazing, especially crumbled into milk.
Petit Filoux
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?!
Em
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
Shihui
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.
Karin
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..
morgana
Wow!!! I want to bake them all !!!
Mélanie
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!