This lemon and Cranberry Bread is a simple and flavorful recipe perfect for celebrating holidays! The best part is you can wrap it up at home and gift it to your loved ones as a Christmas favor.
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What makes this Lemon Cranberry Bread a great holiday baking recipe?
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How to make Lemon Cranberry Bread
How to wrap this Lemon Cranberry Bread for gifting?
Lemon Cranberry Bread Recipe
What makes this Lemon Cranberry Bread a great holiday baking recipe?
We are in the final days to Christmas! The stockings are hung waiting for the presents that are bought and made. Now all I need is to get them wrapped. Luckily, the gifts for the adults in my life consisted of Mason Jar Gifts that require little to no packaging.
I made this gorgeous Lemon & Cranberry Bread for the office assistants at my school. It not only did not require any wrapping, but it's a healthier version that tastes amazing!
I usually try to give the office assistants at school a homemade dessert, but I know how the treats can lead up to tons of calories. This lemon and cranberry bread is lightened up by using Chobani yogurt.
I've taken to using yogurt in place of extra fat foods like sour cream on a bunch of our recipes. I especially like to use it on top of our Enchilada Casserole Pie.
You're going to see a ton of lightened recipes in the next couple of weeks in a Healthy Recipes series that I'm working on with a couple of my favorite foodies. I don't want to give away all of the details, but we'll be giving away some great prizes for participating in various events so keep an eye out for the upcoming details.
Start by preheating your oven and grease and flour your loaf pans.
Use a mixing bowl and combine all the dry ingredients including flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda..
In another bowl combine all wet ingredients including butter, sugar, Chobani yogurt and eggs. Add in dried cranberries and lemon essential oil.
Mix the dry ingredients with wet ingredients to form a batter.
Pour the batter in the prepared loaf pan and bake in the oven for 40 to 45 minutes at 350 Fahrenheit.
While the bread is baking prepare the lemon glaze by mixing together the melted butter, confectioner sugar, vanilla extract, lemon juice and warm water.
Spread the glaze over the baked bread while the bread is warm.
Cut slices after the bread has cooled off on a wire rack.
How to wrap this Lemon Cranberry Bread for gifting?
Since I didn't want to worry about wrapping I made sure to find Disposable Mini Loaf Pans{affiliate link} that would look perfect topped with an Artificial Cranberry Flower{affiliate link}. It's simple, yet stunning.
Lemon Cranberry Bread Recipe
A simple light and delicious Lemon Cranberry Bread Recipe.
This refreshing and bright co*cktail just might become your holiday go-to recipe. It's great for people who love a tall pour but don't want something over-the-top sweet. Instead, just a spoonful of sugar livens up the tart cranberries and a generous pour of lemon juice.
But lemon juice is not safe to use on all surfaces and fabrics and, critically, it should never be mixed with chlorine bleach, nor with products that contain bleach, as the combination creates dangerous toxic fumes.
One reason bread has surprisingly high levels of sodium is that baking soda and baking powder have high sodium content. While baking soda has many useful functions (such as regulating pH balance and leavening bread), a quarter-teaspoon of it has 300 mg of sodium.
HOW MUCH CRANBERRIES TO EAT DAILY? Studies confirming the health-promoting properties of cranberries have typically used doses of 100-300 g of fresh cranberries, equivalent to 7-10 g of dried cranberries, and 100-150 ml of 100% cranberry juice.
A single serving consists of either 1 cup of raw berries or a quarter-cup of dried berries. Nutritionally, these servings differ because the dried berries have more sugar. A cup of raw cranberries contains: 46 calories.
I sweetened my juice with honey which adds a sweet floral touch to the beverage. I also use a couple of freshly squeezed oranges which gives the juice a nice hint of citrus flavor. I'm sure apple juice or apple cider would work well too. I think moving forward I'm going to call this drink cranade (like lemonade…).
Does Cranberry Juice Help With Kidney Stones? Research suggests cranberry juice may actually increase kidney stone formation, rather than helping as many believe. You may consider limiting your cranberry juice to 1 cup or less a day, and choosing other citrus juices like orange, lemon, apple, or black currant.
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