Easy Gluten Free Pear Bread
Wow family and friends with this Gluten Free Pear Bread — a gluten free easy baking recipe featuring fresh pears, perfect for any season!
When I was start this new site, may I should’ve called it Baking, Barbells and Botox.
I kid, I kid. I don’t get Botox NEARLY as much as I bake and pick up barbells.
When you’ve been cooking professionally, like I have, for 20+ years, you begin to realize a few things about yourself. For me, I’ve realized that I *say* I love to cook, but what I *mean* is I love to bake.
A while back, I received the most wonderful package in the mail from USA Pears. I asked friends and fans what I should make with them (if anything… plenty of people agreed to eat them fresh out of hand). While I loved all the suggestions, I knew from the beginning there would be baking involved.
As the holidays approached, I found myself daydreaming of quick breads, cakes cookies, muffins and more. I love waking my family up in the morning to the smell of something sweetly spiced and maybe even iced.
But don’t misunderstand me. Complicated creations are NOT my thing.
I love easy baking recipes that even a novice baker can make, using ingredients that aren’t hard to find and obviously, yield something so tasty my family can’t wait for me to make it again.
This Gluten-Free Pear Bread is all that and more.
I based the recipe loosely on this Pear Granola Bread Recipe on the USA Pears website. I especially loved the idea of using in-season, ripe pears in both the bread itself and in the topping. Where their recipe opts for a granola-type streusel, I used some of the Sunnyland Pecans I had leftover from my recent Pecan Pie Bars. I LOVE a good pecan streusel and adding in the diced fresh pears truly made this a holiday-worthy breakfast bread or dessert.
Enjoy! ~Regan
Easy Gluten Free Pear Bread
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Yield: 1 loaf
- Diet: Gluten Free
Description
Wow family and friends with this Gluten-Free Pear Bread — a gluten-free easy baking recipe featuring fresh pears, perfect for any season!
Ingredients
Bread:
- 2 ripe USA Pears
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 240 g (2 cups) gluten-free all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon Kosher salt
- 1/2 – 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 cup buttermilk
Struesel:
- 1 tablespoon melted butter
- 1 tablespoon gluten-free all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1/2 cup pecan pieces (I used Sunnyland Farms)
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Glaze:
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat a 9-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.
- Cut one pear in half. Dice one pear half, and set aside for Streusel. Grate remaining pear and pear half to yield 1 cup grated pear.
- Beat oil and brown sugar with an electric mixer; beat in eggs and vanilla. Stir in grated pear.
- Whisk together flour and next 6 ingredients (through ginger). Add to oil mixture alternately with buttermilk. Pour into prepared pan.
- Combine remaining Streusel ingredients and toss with reserved diced pear. Sprinkle over top of batter in pan and press in slightly to batter.
- Bake for 1 hour to 1 hour, 10 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center of loaf comes out clean. Cool bread in pan 10 minutes.
- Remove bread from pan. Combine powdered sugar and cream. Drizzle over bread.
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
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