Tropical Quick Bread Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a large bowl. Make a well in the dry ingredients and add vanilla, eggs, oil, fruits, nuts and coconut; mix well. Pour into 2 greased 8-1/2 x 4-1/2-inch loaf pans.
• Bake for 45 to 50 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted near the center of loaf comes out clean. Cool in pans 5 minutes. Remove from pans and cool completely on wire racks. When loaves are cool, mix together ingredients for glaze and pour over loaves.

Steps:

• Blend the flour, sugar, vegetable oil, milk eggs, baking soda, and salt in a mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium until batter is smooth.
• Add mandarin oranges, pineapple, banana, coconut, vanilla and candied fruit or cherries and mix with a spoon until blended.
• Pour batter into 2 greased and floured 5x9 loaf pans.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool on a wire rack.

Steps:

• In bread machine pan, place the first 13 ingredients in order suggested by manufacturer. Select basic bread setting. Choose crust color and loaf size if available. Bake according to bread machine directions (check dough after 5 minutes of mixing; add 1 to 2 tablespoons water or flour if needed)., Just before the final kneading (your machine may audibly signal this), add the macadamia nuts.

Steps:

• set oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan, or mini loaf pans.
• Sift together, the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
• Stir in coconut.
• Mix together the milk, egg and vanilla.
• Combine with the dry mixture.
• Mix in chopped dates and apples; mix well until combined.
• Spoon mixture into a prepared loaf pan.
• Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Steps:

• In a small bowl, mix together softened Neufchatel cheese and pineapple.
• Spread cheese mixture on one slice of bread, top with slices of banana and a sprinkling of coconut, and top with another slice of bread to make a sandwich. Repeat with remaining ingredients.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the first five ingredients; beat on low speed for 30 seconds. Beat on high for 2 minutes. Stir in coconut. , Pour into two greased 8x4-in. loaf pans. Bake at 325° for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks., For glaze, in a small bowl, combine sugar and milk until smooth. Add extract if desired. Drizzle over loaves; sprinkle with coconut.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Grease a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan.
• Sift flour with baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• Combine pineapple, including liquid, bananas and orange juice.
• In large bowl of electric mixer, cream butter and sugar; add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour alternately with pineapple mixture, mixing only enough to moisten flour. Stir in nuts.
• Pour into prepared pan; bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until done.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
• Grease and flour two 9 1/2" x 5 1/2" loaf pans.
• Do not use a mixer with this recipe.
• Use a spoon or spatula and stir by hand.
• In medium mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; mix well.
• In large mixing bowl, combine sugar, oil, beaten eggs, and coconut extract; mix well.
• Alternately add flour mixture and buttermilk to sugar mixture and stir only until moist.
• Stir in shredded coconut.
• Pour batter into the two prepared loaf pans, place on middle rack and bake for 1 hour.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F
• Grease and flour bottom ONLY of 8x4 or 9x5 inch loaf pan.
• In a large bowl, combine quick bread mix, water, oil and egg.
• Stir for 50-75 strokes with spoon till moist.
• Stir in fruit and orange peel.
• Pour batter into greased prepared pan.
• Bake 350 for 55-60 minutes for 8x4 pan, or 45-55 minutes for 9x5 pan.
• test with toothpick to see if its done.
• Cool on wire rack for 15 minutes.
• remove from pan and cool 30 minutes till totally cooled.
• in small bowl, blend powdered sugar and orange juice till desired glaze consistency.
• brush over loaf.
• wrap tightly and store in fridge.