Gluten Free Cherry Bread
This Gluten Free Cherry Bread is a great way to enjoy the best of cherry season in a delicious quick bread.
Clearly there are plenty of fruits and vegetables that you can enjoy year-round and hardly notice a difference in taste. But in my humble opinion, cherries really do shine mid-summer.
Eating fresh cherries straight from the bowl is no doubt one of the best ways to enjoy them. But this yummy quick bread comes in a close second.
Before you make this bread, I suggest grabbing one of these cherry pitters. It makes easy work of depitting cherries.
Gluten Free Cherry Bread
- Total Time: 1 hour, 20 min
- Yield: 8 servings
- Diet: Gluten Free
Ingredients
- Cooking spray
- 2 cups (250g) gluten free all-purpose flour (such as King Arthur Measure-for-Measure gluten-free flour)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest or 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
- Pinch of salt
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 cup milk or almond milk
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1/3 cup applesauce
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 cup fresh cherries, pitted or frozen cherries
- 2 tablespoons sliced almonds
- 1 tablespoon heavy whipping cream
- 3 tablespoons powdered sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract, lemon juice or orange juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat a 9-inch bread pan with cooking spray, or line with parchment paper; set aside.
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, lemon zest, and salt in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk together sugar, milk, oil, applesauce, and eggs.
- Make a well in center of flour mixture. Add wet ingredients, and mix until combined. Gently stir in sweet cherries. Using a rubber spatula, spoon mixture into prepared pan and sprinkle top evenly with almonds.
- Bake in preheated oven until golden brown and a wooden pick inserted in center of bread comes out mostly clean with just a few moist crumbs, about 1 hour.
- Transfer pan to a wire rack, and let cool 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, combine cream, powdered sugar, and almond extract. Carefully remove bread from pan; drizzle with glaze. Let cool, but serve warm. (Store in an airtight container in refrigerator.)
- Prep Time: 10 min
- Cooling Time: 10 min
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Category: Bread
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 345
- Sugar: 26 g
- Sodium: 145 mg
- Fat: 14 g
- Carbohydrates: 50 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 5 g
If you enjoyed this Gluten Free Cherry Bread, check out these other quick breads you may enjoy:
Gluten-Free Cranberry Bread
EASY GLUTEN FREE PEAR BREAD
LOW-FODMAP PUMPKIN BREAD
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