Cranberry Orange Bread

Cooking Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 F

Lightly spray an 8 x 4-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.

To a food processor insert a metal blade and pulse to coarsely chop pecan halves, and then add cranberries and continue to pulse

Now to a stand up mixer add butter, sugar, zest from an orange, eggs and vanilla

Now to a separate bowl add flour, baking powder and salt

Add this flour mixture to the stand up mixer in 3 additions

Add buttermilk in 2 additions

Now fold the cranberry and pecan mixture into the batter

Transfer batter to prepared pan.

Bake until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 55 to 60 minutes.

Cool in pan on a wire rack