Every year around Febuary, I start getting so excited for the strawberry patches to open. Of course, they don’t open till the end of April, but strawberrys stay on my mind all Spring, till I can sink my teeth into those big fresh juicy berries. There is nothing as good as local grown, fresh, perfectly ripe strawberrys. To sustain me through, till fields yield their glory, I used frozen for this quick bread.
I made mini loaves and it reminded me of zuchinni bread. The strawberry flavor is very sutle and the cinnomon seems to take center stage. Then add your Strawberry Butter and your taste buds start singing. This butter would be good on waffles or scones too.
Perfect with a cup of coffee or tea. Morning, noon, or midnight munchies. I’m submitting it to Gretchen Noelle of Canela and Comino, who has selected quick breads for this month’s Homegrown Gourmet.
Strawberry Bread
This recipe from CDKitchen
for Snook’s Bayside Club
Ingredients:
3 cups All-purpose flour
2 cups Sugar
3 teaspoons Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Baking soda
1 teaspoon Salt
1 1/4 cup Vegetable oil
4 Eggs
1 1/4 pound Fresh strawberries; sliced -OR – Unsweetened frozen berries, thawed, drained and coarsely chopped
1/2 cup Walnuts, coarsely chopped (I left out the nuts for daughter reasons.)
2 (8-1/2 x 4-1/2-inch) loaf pans
Strawberry Butter
By:All Recipes
ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar (I used superfine sugar)
1 tablespoon strawberry preserves DIRECTIONS
In a small bowl, beat together the butter, confectioners’ sugar and strawberry preserves until creamy. Cover, and refrigerate until serving.
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Yum! My daughter would love this! I would have never thought to put strawberries in a quick bread. Very clever!
Sounds great! Especially that strawberry butter.
This bread sounds so good! I will definitly be making this!
This sounds delicious! I especially love the sound of the strawberry butter.
Looks great! I had some frozen strawberries from last summer that I made strawberry from last month. It was really good, but I need to make it again and try to lighten it… so much oil I don’t want to try to figure out the calories in it! Yikes!
Karen-Make it for her, she’ll love it. My daughter did!
Jennifer- The butter is the best!
april- Do try it, you wont be sorry!
deborah-Its really good!
patsey- Try it with applesauce. My next batch will be with applesauce so I can compare!
YUM … you find great recipes! tx for another one.
We won’t see any strawberry patches opening here anytime soon…it is -5C…going down again to -27C by weekend…. lol
But… there is always “frozen” berries…
mmmmmm, butter!
Well, I have already commented once on this, but it still looks very tempting, but…
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I made strawberry bread once, but that was with frozen strawberries. Maybe when fresh strawberries go on sale, I’ll try this. The store has blackberries on sale, so maybe I could sub for them.
I am going to post about Marye’s package, but I wanted to get my new layout done. It needs a few tweaks with the margin spacing. This layout reminded me why I am not a computer science major lol
It looks delicious. I’ve never heard of strawberry butter before, but now I’m looking forward to strawberry season, too. I always put up big batches of strawberry freezer jam. It’s my husband’s favorite.
i’ve never had strawberry bread before, but it sounds delicious!
i just joined the DB this month, just checking out everyone else’s blogs, wanted to say hello
Mmm…both sound delicious!
Bumblevee- Thank you. I had to use frozen.
geggie-Butter, need I say more?
April- You got me back now, didnt you?
Carla-I think any berry would work. I was thinking raspberry with maybe a handful of chocolate chips!
Cookie baker lynn- I’d love you recipe for freezer jam!
mrspresly-thanks for stopping by and welcome to the Daring Bakers!
jep-thank you. they compliment each other very nicely
Your pics make me drooling and your recipes seem so yummy. I have some on my blog. Thank you for your visit. See you soon . Pat from French Riviera
Megan – Strawberry Cream Scones are one of my favorites so I can imagine that strawberries in a quickbread are especially delicious! Thanks so much for participating!
Oh that sounds wonderful!
Oh your bread looks so moist and I can’t beleive I have never thought of making Strawberry Butter. I am off to the market to get me some strawberries!!!
I just made the strawberry bread and butter. The bread is AWESOME! I don’t love the butter, but that is probably just me. I was never one for strawberry cream cheese, etc. I would made the bread again and again though!
I just made a recipe similar to this but now I’m totally inspired to go whip up some of that butter! Wow!