Cranberry Chocolate Chunk Bread #SecretRecipeClub
Anyone feel like a little Christmas in June??
I honestly wasn’t meaning to make a Christmas recipe when I picked this month’s Secret Recipe Club selection! This month I got to check out a completely new to me blog, Eat. Live. Blog. As I was looking through Renee’s recipes, I found her Cranberry Chocolate Chip Bread & knew this was the recipe I needed to try out!
Princess P loves cranberries so I thought this would make a great little treat for our weekend breakfast. I knew I had all of the basic ingredients needed for the recipe so I just added more cranberries to my grocery list & off I went. Come time to make the bread ~ I had no chocolate chips!! For some reason, I was confident that I had a bag of white chocolate chips in the cabinet & I was going to use those instead of regular chocolate so I didn’t even bother double checking. And of course, welcome to my luck, I had none. No white chocolate, no chocolate, no chips of any sort. Well, fudge. Just cranberry bread would suck.
But then I saw it, my recipe saver! There sitting on top of a bag of candy corn (don’t ask) was a dark chocolate candy bar. Let’s chop that bad boy up & that’s close enough to chips for me 🙂
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- juice of 4 navel oranges ~ about 3/4 cup
- zest of 1 navel orange
- 2 tablespoons shortening
- 1 egg, beaten well
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 1.75 ounces (about 1/2 of a 3.5 ounce bar) dark chocolate, chopped
- turbinado sugar {optional}
Oh chocolate, cranberry and orange – what a perfect combo! Great SRC choice!
I love cranberries, and the combo of cranberries with dark chocolate is amazing… I am wondering now if it would work with white chocolate, a flavor very dear to my heart…. 🙂
Yummy! this sounds so good!
Cranberries are not just for Christmas 🙂 Love the addition of chocolate. Great SRC pick!
Quick breads are great in any season! I love the sound of cranberries and chocolate together!
Wow, what a gorgeous bread! Looks AND sounds amazing!!
YUM! You had me at chocolate chunk, but the cranberries are just an added bonus!! This turned out sooo good. Happy SRC reveal day!
Definitely a great looking bread!
A LOVELY SRC pick and such enticing photos too! Karen
I love this! Cranberries and chocolate are such a great combo. 🙂
This sounds like a winning recipe any time of year! Happy SRC Reveal Day! 🙂
Yum, why wait until Christmas! Looks delicious. Great pick for SRC!
Yummy!! This sounds great any time of year!!