Eggnog Fruit Bread Recipes

EGGNOG BREAD WITH FRUIT

Steps:

• Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
• Beat eggs, sugar, and butter in large mixing bowl.
• While continuing beating, add flour mixture alternately with egg nog into the mixing bowl, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat until moistened.
• Stir remaining ingredients into mixing bowl.
• Grease or spray a 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 3 inch loaf pan or 3 mini pans. Pour batter into prepared pan(s).
• Bake at 350 for 70 minutes (mini pans will take 40 to 45 minutes) or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Remove to wire rack and cool.

EGGNOG FRUIT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease an 8x4 inch loaf pan.
• Beat the butter, sugar, and eggs together in a mixing bowl. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and sat, alternating with the eggnog, just until the dry ingredients are moistened. Fold in the pecans, raisins, and cherries until evenly blended. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in preheated oven until top is golden and springs back when lightly touched, about 70 minutes. Cool in pan 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

EGGNOG QUICK BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease bottom only of a 9x5-inch loaf pan, or three 3x5-inch loaf pans.
• Blend together the eggs, eggnog, rum extract, sugar, vanilla and butter.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg. Add to eggnog mixture and stir just enough to moisten; pour into prepared pan or pans.
• Bake large loaf for 40 to 60 minutes, or until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Breads baked in the smaller pans require 35 to 40 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes, and remove from pan. Cool completely, wrap tightly in plastic wrap or foil, and store in refrigerator.

EGGNOG MINI LOAVES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. In another bowl, beat the eggs, eggnog, sugar, butter and extracts; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened., Pour into three greased 5-3/4x3x2-in. loaf pans. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 30-35 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

FESTIVE EGGNOG BREAD (FOR BREAD MACHINE)

Steps:

• Place all ingredients except cherries in bread machine pan in order listed.
• Use normal white 1 1/2 lb cycle.
• Add the cherries at the beep (or at the time in the cycle when you would normally add fruit or nuts- see your bread machine's manual for details).

CHRISTMAS EGGNOG BREAD

Steps:

• Beat sugar and egg in mixing bowl.
• Beat in melted butter.
• Add eggnog and extract. Mix.
• Sift flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg over the eggnog mixture.
• Stir until moistened.
• Mix in nuts and fruit.
• Turn into greased 9x9x3 loaf pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees for about 1 hour until an inserted wooden pick comes out clean.
• Let stand for 20 minutes.
• Turn out onto rack to cool.
• Variations: Use measurements above.
• Pecan and Dried Cranberries.
• Pineapple and Coconut (drain pineapple).
• Walnut and Raisin (raisins soaked in Apricot brandy or any other fruity juice and then drained).