Fresh Strawberry Bread with Strawberry Icing
Sweet, moist, and loaded with sweet in-season strawberries! This Fresh Strawberry Bread with Strawberry Icing is not only easy to make, but truly oh so delicious.
Ingredients
Bread
- 2½ cups chopped fresh strawberries
- 2 Tablespoons all purpose flour
- 2 cups all purpose flour*
- ⅞ cup granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ⅔ teaspoon salt
- ⅞ cup whole milk
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs room temperature
- 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
Icing
- ½ cup powdered sugar sifted
- 1 Tablespoon strawberry powder
- 1 Tablespoon whole milk
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
Bread
- Heat oven to 350℉.
- Spray a 9 inch loaf pan with baking spray. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, toss strawberries with 2 Tablespoons flour. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together 2 cups flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
- Add milk, oil, eggs, and vanilla.
- Whisk until smooth.
- Fold in strawberry mixture.
- Spoon into prepared pan.
- Bake for 45 minutes.
- Cover with foil.
- Continue baking for an additional 35 minutes, or until done.
- Allow to cool to touchable temperature in pan, about 25-30 minutes.
- Turn out onto cooling rack.
- Allow to finish cooling.
Icing
- In a small bowl, whisk all ingredients together until smooth.
- Spread on cooled bread.
Notes
*This recipe was written using an average of the dip and sweep method for measuring flour and the spoon and level method. If you are using a scale, you will need to add 3/4 oz or 22 g to the measurement for each cup of flour.
Substitutions:
- You can use frozen strawberries instead of fresh.
- To make this recipe dairy-free, you can use your favorite non-dairy milk!
- You can also make this recipe vegan by using a non-dairy milk and your favorite vegan egg substitute.
- Remember to preheat the oven.
- Check the expiration date on your baking soda and baking powder before baking.
- Make sure the strawberries are thoroughly coated in flour!
- Be careful to not over-mix the batter.
- The strawberry icing on top is not necessary, but it really does add extra strawberry flavor.
Nutrition
Serving: 1sliceCalories: 276kcalCarbohydrates: 41gProtein: 4gFat: 11gSaturated Fat: 2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 6gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 33mgSodium: 220mgPotassium: 127mgFiber: 1gSugar: 23gVitamin A: 79IUVitamin C: 33mgCalcium: 76mgIron: 2mg
Nutritional information is only an estimate. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed.