Merry Christmas everyone. Welcome back
to Katherine's Plates. Today we are
going to make orange cranberry bread for
Christmas. Now, this is my mom's recipe.
She makes this every year along with
other goodies for the holidays for
family and friends, and we're always
excited to get it from her. But I wanted
to make this recipe for you guys. So, I
asked her if that was okay, and she
said, "Of course." Now, if you don't
know my mom, go check out that cherry
mash. We made that one together in her
kitchen. All right, you guys. Grab a bag
of fresh cranberries. You need 12 oz.
What we're going to do is open them up.
We're going to put them into a strainer.
And then, you know, we're going to give
them a good rinse, clean them off, check
for any
that's not a cranberry in there.
All right, I'm going to check through
these, give them a good rinse. We're
going to come back so we can dry them
off.
All right, you're just going to take a
towel, your kitchen towel, and we're
just going to kind of dry these off.
We're going to go get that one that
escaped over the side.
Okay. Now, you want a half that bag of
cranberries. You need one and a half
cups, which I thought was 12 ounces. Not
when it involves cranberries. All right.
So, one and 1/2 cups. Measure them out.
And it's probably about half your bag
there. We're going to zest two oranges.
So, just go all the way around the
orange. Now, I did wash off my oranges
really good.
We'll
give it a nice zesty
flavor going on. It is an orange
cranberry bread, so we need the orange.
Now, when you do this, make sure you
don't go all the way to the white of the
orange because you don't want it to be
bitter.
Now, as you can see, this is what I did
on this one right here.
All right, got to the end of that one.
Get all that on there. All
right, that looks good right there.
About one tablespoon.
All right, we're looking for about a/4
cup of the squeezed orange juice.
All right, now we're going to start with
some dry ingredients. We're going to add
1 and 1/2 cups of allpurpose flour into
a large mixing bowl.
Yeah.
Can't believe I got the recipe.
Now, she makes minis and gives them out
like that. I'm going to be making the
big loaf.
All right. To that, we're going to add
3/4 cup of white granulated sugar.
already measured that out.
And then we're going to add in 1 and 1/2
teaspoon of baking powder.
Let's get a half.
There we go.
Want it to rise. And then we're going to
add in
a/4 teaspoon of salt.
And then you're going to grab a whisk
and blend that all together. Now, this
is a technique.
Certain ways you put this together. Once
you get it all whisked together,
we're going to add in the orange zest.
All in there.
That smells good.
And then we're going to add in our 1 and
1/2 cups or 6 oz
of our cranberries that we had dried
off.
We're going to get a spatula
and we're going to coat everything very
well.
That'll keep those cranberries from
sinking in your bread mixture.
Get them nice and coated. All right,
we're going to set this aside now and
bring over our small medium bowl.
Now, we're going to add in our wet
ingredients. So, we're going to start
off with two eggs.
I'm going to give that a little mix.
We're going to add in five tablespoon of
melted butter. Now, I cooled this down a
little bit because you don't want to add
hot melted butter into your eggs or
they'll scramble. Now, my eggs were
brought to room temperature.
Got that in there. We're going to add in
1/4 cup of milk, which we brought to
room temperature also.
We'll get that out of the way. And then
we're going to add in 1/4 cup of our
squeezed fresh orange juice.
And then we're just going to blend that
all together.
Whisk it. And as you can see, we did not
get scrambled eggs.
All right, we're going to bring over our
fled cranberries. All right. That's why
we started off in the large bowl so that
we can add the wet ingredients that we
combined into the flour and cranberries.
All right, we're going to use the
spatula and we're going to fold
everything together. We don't want to
over mix, just until everything is well
combined. Oh, it looks so festive in
there with those cranberries.
I hope I do. do my mom's recipe proud.
This is the first time I've done it.
Think we got a good mix on it. Look down
there at the bottom. Oh, I can see the
orange specks in there from the orange
zest.
Does look good.
There we go.
All right. Now, we're going to take a
loaf pan. This is kind of like a
meatloaf pan or a banana bread pan,
whatever you're using. This is a 9 in x
5 in by 2 in.
We're going to spray that with some
non-stick cooking spray that has flour
in it. Or you can even grease it and
then flour it and shake out the excess.
I like the baker's joy here. Just so
easy to use.
There we go. Make sure you get the
sides.
And then we're going to put the mixture
in.
All right.
Going to smooth it out nice and even.
Right. We're going to wipe off any of
the excess around the edges here.
You want that to bake on there. Won't
look as pretty.
Now, if you have the minis, I think this
will fit four to five of them, I believe
she said.
All right. I've got my oven preheated at
350°.
We're going to bake this for about 50
minutes till it's completely cooked
through, nice and golden brown on the
top. Take a toothpick, put it into the
center of your bread, pull it out, and
it should come out nice and clean. Now,
if you're doing the minis, she said at
350° for 25 to 35 minutes. And you can
do those. All right, we're going to come
back. I'm going to cool this for about
15 minutes and then we're going to make
a delicious glaze to go on top.
All right, you guys. Doesn't that look
beautiful?
Now, I waited about 20 minutes to pull
it out of the pan. I just took a knife
and went around the edges of the baking
dish and then popped this thing out. It
looks gorgeous, huh? We're going to make
a delicious glaze. I'm going to be using
3/4 cup
of some powdered sugar. Just put it in a
medium bowl.
And I'm just going to uh whisk that up
just a little bit. Break up any lumps.
And then what we're going to do is take
that freshlysqueezed orange juice. And I
got about two tablespoons of it. We'll
add it in a little bit at a time till we
get a nice thick drizzle
for our orange cranberry bread. All
right, let's add it in.
Now, if it's too thick, you can add a
little bit of milk to it. And if it's
too thin, just add some more powdered
sugar to it.
Perfect.
All right, let's drizzle.
There we go.
We have cooled it down completely.
Look at that, you guys.
All right, we're going to use a bread
knife. We're going to slice into it.
There we go.
Here's my orange cranberry bread. This
is my mom's recipe.
Oh.
Oh my gosh. And that glaze with that
orange juice. It's going to be
delicious.
I love those bursts of those
cranberries.
And that batter that is very light, very
fluffy.
It's got a delicious texture to it.
Yeah, look at that.
Y'all need to make this one. Merry
Christmas everybody. Happy holidays. I
hope everybody has a great New Year.
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