Holiday Strawberry Bread Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter and flour two 9 x 5-inch loaf pans.
• Slice strawberries and place in medium-sized bowl. Sprinkle lightly with sugar, and set aside while preparing batter.
• Combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, salt and baking soda in large bowl; mix well. Blend oil and eggs into strawberries. Add strawberry mixture to flour mixture, blending until dry ingredients are just moistened. Stir in pecans. Divide batter into pans.
• Bake in preheated oven until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes (test each loaf separately). Let cool in pans on wire rack for 10 minutes. Turn loaves out of pans, and allow to cool before slicing.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 5x9 inch loaf pans.
• In a bowl, mix the flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. In a separate bowl, beat together the 1 3/4 cups strawberries, 2 tablespoons strawberry extract, eggs, sugar, and oil. Gradually beat the flour mixture into the strawberry mixture. Transfer to the prepared loaf pans.
• Bake 45 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a loaf comes out clean. Cool on wire racks.
• In a saucepan, mix the 1/4 cup strawberries with syrup, sugar, water, and 1 tablespoon strawberry extract. Bring to a boil, and stir constantly until sugar is dissolved, about 5 minutes. Pour over the bread while still warm.

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl stir all the dry ingredients together.
• Make a "well" in the center of the mixture.
• Pour the strawberries, oil and eggs into the hole.
• Mix by hand until all the ingredients are thoroughly combined.
• Add the food coloring if desired.
• Pour the batter into 2 greased and floured 9 x 5 x 2-1/2" loaf pans.
• Bake at 350° for 1 hour or until tests done.
• Cool.
• You can use smaller size loaf pans for more loaves. Reduce cooking time.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda, sugar, cinnamon and salt. Add egg, egg whites and oil; stir just until moistened. Fold in strawberries and nuts. Spoon into two greased 8x4-in. loaf pans. , Bake at 350° for 70 minutes or until bread tests done. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack.