Best Cranberry Banana Bread Recipes

CRANBERRY BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350F degrees.
• Grease an 8 1/2 by 4 1/2 inch loaf pan.
• Mix sugar and butter in a medium mixing bowl until completely blended.
• Add banana, milk and eggs, mixing well.
• Add dry ingredients, mixing just until moist.
• Stir in nuts and cranberries.
• Spread batter evenly in the loaf pan.
• Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the centre of the bread comes out clean.
• Remove from pan, cool on rack.

BANANA CRANBERRY BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease two 9x5 inch loaf pans.
• In a large bowl, cream together the sugar and shortening until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, and mix in bananas, cranberry sauce, milk, and vanilla. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Gradually blend flour mixture into the banana mixture. Fold in walnuts. Pour into the prepared loaf pans.
• Bake for 50 to 60 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack, and cool completely.

CRANBERRY BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in bananas. Combine the flour, cracker crumbs, baking powder, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Fold in walnuts and cranberries. Pour into a greased 8x4-in. loaf pan., Bake at 350° for 50-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack.

DOUBLE CRANBERRY BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and crumbly. Beat in eggs, banana and vanilla. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda; gradually beat into creamed mixture. Stir in cranberry sauce, 1/2 cup pecans and dried cranberries., Transfer to a greased 8x4-in. loaf pan. Sprinkle with remaining pecans. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 50-60 minutes. Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely., Freeze option: Securely wrap cooled loaf in foil, then freeze. To use, thaw at room temperature.

CRANBERRY BANANA OAT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 2 1/2 x 8 1/2-inch loaf pan with butter. Whisk the flour, oats, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl; set aside.
• Whisk the eggs in a mixing bowl until smooth. Beat in the bananas, sour cream, and melted butter. Add the sugar, cranberries, and lemon juice; beat until evenly blended. Fold into the oat mixture until no dry lumps remain. Pour into the prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

CRANBERRY PUMPKIN BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Sift flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg into a large bowl.
• Beat the butter, brown sugar, pumpkin, cranberry sauce, egg, and banana with an electric mixer in a bowl until smooth. Gradually stir in the flour mixture, mixing until just combined. Pour batter into a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

CRANBERRY-ORANGE PUMPKIN-SPICE BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Brush 9 x 5-inch loaf pan with additional I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!® Spread; set aside.
• Combine mashed banana, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!® Spread, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla in large bowl with wooden spoon. Stir in remaining ingredients except Glaze until blended. Spoon into prepared pan.
• Bake 60-70 minutes until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 20 minutes on wire rack; remove from pan and cool completely.
• To make Glaze, combine confectioners sugar, melted Spread, vanilla, orange peel and 3 to 4 teaspoons warm water in small bowl. Drizzle over cooled banana bread.

THE VERY BEST BANANA CRANBERRY BREAD

Steps:

• Cream shortening, sugar and vanilla. Add eggs and mix until blended. Fold in mashed bananas. Fold in dry ingredients. Lastly, add the cranberries and chopped walnuts. Pour into a greased 9 X 5 loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes to 1 hour. (Until knife inserted comes out clean).
• **I have used halved cranberries but found whole fresh cranberries work fine**.
• ** I also use dark brown sugar. It's just my preference.**.

CRANBERRY-ORANGE PUMPKIN-SPICE BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• For the banana bread
• Preheat oven to 350°. Brush 9 x 5-inch loaf pan with additional I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!® Spread; set aside.
• Combine mashed banana, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!® Spread, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla in large bowl with wooden spoon. Stir in remaining ingredients except Glaze until blended. Spoon into prepared pan. Bake 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 20 minutes on wire rack; remove from pan and cool completely.
• **Pumpkin pie spice is sold in jars in the supermarket. You can create your own by combining 2 tsp. ground cinnamon, 1 tsp. ground ginger, 1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg or allspice and 1/4 tsp. ground cloves.
• For the orange glaze
• To make Glaze, combine confectioners sugar, melted Spread, vanilla, orange peel and 3 to 4 teaspoons warm water in small bowl. Drizzle over cooled banana bread.

PUMPKIN BANANA CRANBERRY BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Grease 2 loaf pans.
• In a large bowl stir together mashed bananas, pumpkin, applesauce, eggs, and vanilla until fully combined.
• In a medium bowl combine flour, splenda, baking powder, baking soda cinnamon, ginger, allspice, flax and salt.
• Add flour mixture to wet ingredients along with cranberries and stir just until combined.
• Pour into loaf pans.
• Bake 70-80 minutes until well browned.

DRIED BLUEBERRY, CRANBERRY OR APRICOT BANANA NUT BREAD

Steps:

• preheat oven to 350degrees.
• grease bottom and 1in up the sides of TWO bread 7 1/2x3 1/2x2in bread pans; set aside.
• combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg.
• in a medium mixing bowl, or food processor, combine eggs, bananas, sugar and butter. (I use I Can't Beleive It's Not Butter). Mix for 30 seconds.
• fold in nuts of your choice.
• spoon batter into prepared pans.
• bake at 350 for 40-45minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of bread comes clean.
• cool in pan on a wire rack for 10minutes. remove from pan. cool completely on a wire rack and enjoy.

CRANBERRY BANANA NUT BREAD

Steps:

• In a bowl, sift the first 4 ingredients; set aside.
• Mix the next 4 ingredients together in another bowl.
• Fold flour mixture with orange juice mixture, then stir in bananas, cranberries and nuts.
• Pour into 2 lightly greased loaf pans.
• Bake at 350° for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• *Note: I haven't made this bread in quite awhile and for some reason my recipe doesn't have the bake time written down, so I'm going by the bake time on a banana bread and a cranberry bread.
• I suggest checking at 30 minutes to be on the safe side.

CREAM CHEESE BANANA-CRANBERRY BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Grease/flour two loaf pans.
• First bowl:.
• Cream butter and cream cheese
• Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time.
• Second bowl:.
• Combine flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt
• Third bowl:.
• Mash bananas.
• Slowly add flour mixture into cream cheese/butter/sugar mixture. It will be a little dry at this point - don't worry!
• Stir in bananas and vanilla, mix well.
• Stir in cranberries, fold well.
• Spoon into pans. Bake, uncovered, for 1 hour. For the last fifteen minutes cover with foil so doesn't brown too much.
• Enjoy!

CRANBERRY BANANA OAT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Lightly grease an 8 1/2-by-4 1/2-by-2 1/2-inch loaf pan with a small amount of margarine.
• Whisk together flour, oats, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Set aside. Whisk bananas, eggs and margarine together in a separate bowl. Add sugar, cranberries, and lemon juice; mix until blended. Gently stir the banana mixture into the flour mixture until just combined. Do not over mix the batter.
• Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and bake until lightly browned, 45 to 50 minutes. Allow the bread to cool completely in the pan, about 1 hour. Turn the bread out onto a cutting board and, using a serrated bread knife, slice the bread into 3/4-inch thick pieces.
• Arrange on a platter and serve. Enjoy!

EGGLESS CRANBERRY ORANGE BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease bottom of two loaf pans.
• In food processor, chop pecans, remove to medium bowl.
• In food processor, add sugar, oil, vanilla, bananas, yogurt and orange zest. Pulse until blended and banana is only slightly lumpy.
• In medium bowl, blend flaxseed, oat bran, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves.
• Toss in raisins and cranberries, coating with flour mixture.
• Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir well.
• Add vinegar, stir well.
• Pour equal amounts into the two loaf pans and bake for 40-45 minutes. May need more baking time, keep checking.
• Note: while flaxseed and oat bran are optional, they add fiber and aid the nutritional value. Raisins, Cranberries and Pecans are all interchangeable, if you don't have them, leave them out or add more if desired.

BANANA WALNUT CRANBERRY BREAD WITH BROWN SUGAR WALNUT GLAZE

Steps:

• For the Banana Walnut Cranberry Bread: Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Toast chopped walnuts in oven for 5 minutes, remove and set aside. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. In separate bowl, beat 2 eggs, mashed bananas, vanilla, and buttermilk. Mix banana mixture into creamed butter and sugar. Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into banana mixture, beat well. Fold toasted walnuts and chopped cranberries into mixture. Divide mixture evenly into two greased and floured bread loaf pans. Bake approximately 1 hour or until a knife comes out clean when inserted into the middle. Remove bread from pans and place on a cookie tray. Ladle prepared glaze evenly over bread loaves and return to oven for approximately 5 minutes until glaze is bubbling. Remove from oven and cool on racks. For the Brown Sugar Walnut Glaze: Melt butter in saucepan over medium-high heat and add sugar, milk, vanilla, Stir continuously until all sugar has melted approximately one minute. Add walnuts and use immediately.

CRANBERRY BANANA-NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Line a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan with parchment paper or grease; set aside.
• In a large bowl, beat butter with sugar until fluffy; beat in eggs, 1 at a time, heating well after each. Beat in bananas, vanilla and lemon juice.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Sitr into butter mixture alternately with milk, making 3 additions of dry ingredients and 2 of milk. Fold in cranberries and nuts. Scrape into prepared pan, smoothing top.
• Bake in centre of 350°F oven until cake tester inserted in centre comes out clean, about 1 ¼ hours. Let cool in pan on rack for 5 minutes, Remove from pan and peel off paper; let cool completely. Wrap in plastic wrap; store at room temperature for 24 hours before slicing. (It will be crumbly if you try to cut it before this.).

CRANBERRY BANANA BREAD (WW)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Spray loaf pan (see note as I used smaller pans than the 9 x 5 pan indicated but cooked for same amount of time).
• In a bowl combine flours and dry ingredients (flour - salt) and set aside.
• In another bowl and using an electric mixer beat sugar and oil together until for 2 minutes.
• Beat in egg substitute (I didn't have egg beaters so used packaged egg whites) and then beat in the bananas. Scrape down side of bowl.
• Stir in flour mixture and cranberries.
• Spoon batter into prepared loaf pan (or pans).
• Bake for 55 - 60 minutes or until bread is done.

FESTIVE CRANBERRY BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two 8x4-inch loaf pans.
• In electric mixer bowl, combine butter, sugar and eggs. Beat until smooth. Add lemon juice and vanilla extract; mix to combine. Stir in bananas and cranberries.
• In a separate bowl. combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Add to the wet ingredients and stir until moist and combined. Pour batter into loaf pans.
• Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 60 minutes or until bread tests done. Let cool, then wrap in aluminum foil.

CRANBERRY BANANA NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Cook cranberries to directions on package; cool. Mash bananas. Cream shortening with sugar; add eggs (one at a time, beating after each addition). Sift dry ingredients together; add nuts; add flour mixture alternately with mashed bananas to creamed mixture, beating well after each addition. Carefully fold in cranberries. Don't stir too much as they will go into the mixture and make it turn red. Pour into greased 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2" loaf pan. Bake in moderate oven 350 F 60 to 65 min. or until done. Cool before slicing. This can be frozen.