Easy, moist cranberry sauce bread with leftover cranberry sauce! This is an easy recipe to make use of any leftover cranberry sauce from holidays like Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas and it makes the perfect sweet, tangy snack bread you can even enjoy for next day breakfast! If you have leftover homemade cranberry sauce made on stove top or instant pot cranberry sauce or even store bought cranberry sauce, you can use it in this bread recipe or you can also use it to make muffins! This is also a simple dairy free bread recipe since it is a bread made without milk or butter or any dairy! Also try this moist cranberry banana bread and cranberry chocolate cake if you have leftove fresh cranberries!
Cranberry Sauce Bread Taste:
What does cranberry sauce bread taste like?
The cranberry sauce bread with leftover cranberry sauce tastes slightly tangy and sweet and it's not too sour in taste like cranberry sauce itself. So if you basically is not a fan of cranberry sauce taste and if you are looking for ways to make use of leftover cranberry sauce, this is a great bread recipe that you can easily make at home! If you love the sour taste of cranberries also, you will still love this cranberry bread since you can find delicious cranberries in the bread, but not in a very sour taste like in the sauce itself!
So in my opinion, this cranberry sauce bread is a winner whether you love the cranberry sauce or not! Here is how you can make easy, delicious cranberry sauce bread using leftover cranberry sauce from the holidays!
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how to make cranberry sauce bread with leftover cranberry sauce?
To make homemade cranberry sauce bread with leftover cranberry sauce we use the following ingredients.
Ingredients used to make cranberry sauce bread:
- cranberry sauce 2 cups
- all purpose flour 2 cups
- baking powder 2 teaspoons
- sugar 1 cup
- eggs 2 large
- olive oil 2 tablespoons
- vanilla extract 1 teaspoon
step by step instructions
- Place the flour in a large bowl.
- Add baking powder and mix well with the flour.
- Add the leftover cranberry sauce also to the flour and mix with the flour to form a crumbly mixture.
- In a different bowl, beat well the eggs.
- Add sugar also to the beaten eggs, stir well to combine.
- Also add olive oil and vanilla extract to the egg sugar mixture, stir well to combine.
- Add the wet ingredients mixture (eggs, sugar, oil, vanilla mixture) to the dry flour mixture, mix everything well to form the cranberry bread batter.
- Preheat oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit.
- Preapare a loaf pan greased with little oil and lined with parchment paper.
- Add the cranberry bread batter to the prepared baking pan.
- Place the baking pan in the preheated oven and bake for about 40 minutes.
- Then, increase the oven temperature to 375 degree Fahrenheit and bake for another 25 to 30 minutes until the bread is completely cooked (a toothpick inserted at the center of the bread should come out clean once it is fully baked).
- The top of the bread usually will have cracks and will have a golden brown color, while the inside will be slightly pink color from the cranberry sauce!
- If the inside of the bread is not completely cooked after the top is browned, cover the top of the baking pan with foil and continue baking for another few more minutes until the bread is completely baked.
- Once the bread is baked, immediately transfer it from the hot oven and allow the bread to cool down.
- When the cranberry bread is cooled enough, slice and serve it along with tea, coffee or milk as you like!
Below you can get the detailed recipe for cranberry sauce bread!
Cranberry Sauce Bread With Leftover Cranberry Sauce
Ingredients
- 2 cups cranberry sauce
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Place the flour in a large bowl.
- Add baking powder and mix well with the flour.
- Add the leftover cranberry sauce also to the flour and mix with the flour to form a crumbly mixture.
- In a different bowl, beat well the eggs.
- Add sugar also to the beaten eggs, stir well to combine.
- Also add olive oil and vanilla extract to the egg sugar mixture, stir well to combine.
- Add the wet ingredients mixture (eggs, sugar, oil, vanilla mixture) to the dry flour mixture, mix everything well to form the cranberry bread batter.
- Preheat oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit.
- Preapare a loaf pan greased with little oil and lined with parchment paper.
- Add the cranberry bread batter to the prepared baking pan.
- Place the baking pan in the preheated oven and bake for about 40 minutes.
- Then, increase the oven temperature to 375 degree Fahrenheit and bake for another 25 to 30 minutes until the bread is completely cooked (a toothpick inserted at the center of the bread should come out clean once it is fully baked).
- The top of the bread usually will have cracks and will have a golden brown color, while the inside will be slightly pink color from the cranberry sauce!
- If the inside of the bread is not completely cooked after the top is browned, cover the top of the baking pan with foil and continue baking for another few more minutes until the bread is completely baked.
- Once the bread is baked, immediately transfer it from the hot oven and allow the bread to cool down. When the cranberry bread is cooled enough, slice and serve it along with tea, coffee or milk as you like!
Lorraine
wonderful came out great I did put an extra cup of flour. did not need to cover and put back in oven.
Recipe Garden
Hi Lorraine, I am so glad to hear it turned out great for you!! Thank you so much for your feedback 🙂
Carol
Great recipe
Delicious so easy with just a few ingredients a plus
I did add 2 tablespoons grated orange peel about 1/4 cup slivered almonds
This recipe is definitely on the repeat list
Recipe Garden
Hi Carol, I am so glad you liked this and its on repeat list!! Its definitely a simple yet delicious way to use leftover cranberry sauce. Adding grated orange peel and almonds sounds great! Thanks again for your feedback 🙂
Carol
Today I’m going make another bread but swapping out cranberry sauce for bananas
Have you try this
I’ll let you know the results
Recipe Garden
Sounds great! I have a recipe for cranberry banana bread here as well 🙂
Carol
Made this today followed the recipe exactly as written except swapped 2 cups smashed bananas for cranberry sauce, added 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 1/2 white 1/2 brown sugar, 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, pinch of salt. Only had self rise flour came out great. Another keeper.
Recipe Garden
That's wonderful! I am so happy it turned out great as well 🙂 Adding walnuts, cinnamon and brown sugar sounds great too! Thanks so much for sharing!!