Holiday Spice Bread Recipes

HOLIDAY SPICE BREAD RECIPE

Steps:

• Cream sugar, brown sugar and eggs together.
• Add oil, vanilla, and brandy. Mix together.
• In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and cloves.
• Add the dry ingredients to the egg mixture alternately with buttermilk. Stir in raisins and walnuts.
• Pour the batter into greased, 1-pint, wide-mouthed canning jars with perfectly straight sides, a little more than half-filled.
• Place filled jars on a cookie sheet. Bake in a preheated oven, 350 degrees, for 40 to 45 minutes or until tested done like a cake.
• Cool for 10 minutes in the jars. Remove from jars and cool for 15 minutes on racks.
• Wrap each loaf in plastic wrap while still warm. Finish cooling on racks.
• Serve once cooled or freeze if you are making them ahead of time.

GRANDMA EMMA'S SPICE LOAF

Steps:

• Soak raisins in coffee until plump. Do not drain.
• Cream together the shortening, sugar and eggs. Blend in molasses and vanilla.
• In a large bowl mix together the cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, flour, baking soda, and salt. Make a well in the center of the bowl.
• Add the liquid ingredients to the well in the dry ingredients. Stir in coffee with raisins and nuts. Pour batter into a greased 9x5 inch loaf pan.
• Bake in a preheated 350 degree F(175 degrees C) oven for one hour.

HONEY SPICE BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°. In a small saucepan, combine brown sugar and milk. Cook and stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat., In a large bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. In another bowl, whisk eggs, honey, oil and brown sugar mixture until blended. Add to flour mixture; stir just until moistened., Transfer the batter to a greased 8x4-in. loaf pan. Bake 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean (cover top loosely with foil if needed to prevent overbrowning)., Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. In a small bowl, stir glaze ingredients until smooth; drizzle over bread. Freeze option: Securely wrap cooled loaf in foil and then freeze. To use, thaw at room temperature. Glaze as directed.