Cranberry Streusel Bread

Orange-Glazed Cranberry Streusel Bread

Cranberries are a favorite of ours especially around Christmas time.
We visited a cranberry blog when we traveled to Cape Cod.  It was fascinating.
We went before the harvest, so we did not see the flooding in the fields during the harvest time.

This is a cranberry bog about ready for harvest in September.

I was expecting to see "The Ocean Spray" guys from the commercial.
We missed them!

 This is a bog being flooded and harvested.

Streusel:

• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 Tablespoons sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 3 Tablespoons chilled butter

Bread

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 large egg, lightly beaten
• 1/2  cup milk
• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 Tablespoon orange zest
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups fresh cranberries, chopped

Glaze

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 to 2 Tablespoons fresh orange juice

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease bottom of a loaf pan.  

Make the streusel by combining in a medium bowl flour, sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg.

Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs; set aside.

For the bread batter, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.  Make a well in the center of the 

flour mixture; set aside.  Combine egg, milk, oil, orange juice, oil, zest, and vanilla.  Add egg 

mixture all at once to the flour mixture.  Stir just until moistened , batter will be lumpy.  

Fold in cranberries.  Tip: To keep cranberries from sinking while baking in the bread, toss them with flour before adding them to the batter!

Spoon batter into prepared pan, spreading evenly.  Sprinkle streusel topping over batter. Bake for 60 to 65 minutes. 

Cool completely and remove bread from pan.

After cooling, you can top with glaze, if you wish. For glaze combine powdered sugar and orange juice. Spread glaze over bread.

This recipe was modified from the Hy-Vee Seasons magazine/Holiday 2014

Health Benefits of Cranberries
Cranberries have vitamin C and fiber, and are only 45 calories per cup. In disease-fighting antioxidants, cranberries outrank nearly every fruit and vegetable--including strawberries, spinach, broccoli, red grapes, apples, raspberries, and cherries.
http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/cranberries-year-round-superfood