Dried cranberries are all the rage in home baking and with good reason. They are sweet to the taste and their ruby redness is a happy, festive color. Cranberry banana bread recipe makes 2 delicious mini loaves, topped with a simple glaze, that are perfect for family dessert as well as gift giving.
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour, 10 minutes
Ingredients:
- 2 bananas, mashed
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup dried cranberries
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2-1/2 tsp baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 1/3 cup butter, chilled
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- 1/4 cup confectioner’s sugar
- milk
Preparation:
- Grease two mini loaf pans.
- Preheat oven 350 degrees F.
- Mash bananas in large bowl.
- Stir in eggs, honey, sugar, and cranberries. Set bowl aside to work on dry ingredients.
- In separate bowl, mix dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Chop butter into small pieces and add to flour mixture.
- Break butter into flour with fingers until flour is crumbly.
- Stir dry ingredients into banana mixture.
- Scrape batter into 2 mini loaf pans.
- Bake for 1 hour or until inserted knife comes out clean.
- Remove loaves from oven and turn out onto rack. Allow to cool.
- When cool, mix confectioner’s sugar with just enough milk to make a glaze. Drizzle glaze onto loaves and allow to set.
