Ginger Pear Vanilla Quick Bread Light Recipes

GINGER PEAR BREAD

Steps:

• Toss chopped pears with sugar, ginger, and cloves in a large bowl. Set aside and let the sugar dissolve in the pear juices.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease an 8x4-inch loaf pan.
• Stir vegetable oil, vanilla extract, and eggs into the pears. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Add the flour mixture to the pear mixture and stir gently just to combine. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 40 minutes.

PEAR BREAD WITH VANILLA AND GINGER

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°; grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
• In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar with an electric mixer.
• Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Add in the vanilla extract and beat just until combined.
• In another bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, lemon zest, and crystallized ginger.
• Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture, alternating with the buttermilk, in three equal portions.
• Beat just until smooth.
• Gently fold in pears, just until evenly distributed.
• Scrape batter into prepared pan; bake in the center of the oven until golden brown and pick comes out clean, about 55-65 minutes.
• Turn the loaf out of pan onto a rack, then turn it right side up; let cool completely before slicing.

PEAR AND GINGER QUICK BREAD

Steps:

• Core the pears (there's no need to peel the fruit) and purée it well in a blender or food processor.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream together the sugar and butter, then add the egg, beating till smooth.
• Add the pear purée, flour, ground ginger, baking soda, baking powder, salt and vanilla. Beat till smooth.
• Stir in the candied ginger and nuts.
• Spoon the batter into an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2-inch loaf pan.
• Bake in a preheated 350°F oven for 55 minutes to 1 hour, or until a cake tester inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean.
• Remove the pan from the oven, and cool the loaf in the pan for 15 minutes. Gently remove the loaf from the pan and cool it completely on a wire rack.

FRESH GINGER-PEAR QUICK BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°; grease a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan with butter, then sprinkle it with all-purpose flour.
• Turn the loaf pan upside down and tap out the excess flour.
• Peel, core, and cut the pears into 1/4-inch cubes.
• Stir the pears and ginger together in a bowl.
• Pour the buttermilk into a measuring cup; stir in the vanilla and all the zest.
• In another bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
• Using a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar on med-high speed.
• Add the eggs, one at a time, beating for 20 seconds between each addition.
• Add the flour mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, beating on low speed just until combined after each addition.
• Fold in the ginger-pear mixture.
• Pour the batter into prepared pan; bake for about 55 minutes, until a pick comes out clean.
• Cool the bread in the pan for 5 minutes.
• Invert the bread onto a baking rack; cool bread completely before covering it tightly with plastic wrap for storage.
• The bread will keep up to 3 days at room temperature, or up to 3 weeks if frozen.
• Thaw the bread completely at room temperature and reheat it slowly in a 300° oven about 15 minutes.

GINGER PEAR VANILLA QUICK BREAD, LIGHT

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Spray a 9x5" bread pan with PAM
• Sift flour, Splenda, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and ground ginger together in a bowl and set aside.
• Melt margarine.
• Add in lemon zest and egg whites.
• Add the liquids, milk las, the dry ingredients.
• Mix in until flour starts to disappear.
• Fold the diced pears into the batter and then scrape the batter in to bread pan.
• Cook for 50-60 minutes but check the bread sooner as Splenda items tend to bake faster.