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Strawberry bread is an easy quick bread that is both moist and delicious.
This recipe for strawberry quick bread turns out sweet, moist, and oh-so-delicious. It’s loaded with berries, and a light powder sugar glaze makes the perfect topping.
A Favorite Quick Bread!
- Strawberry bread is made with simple ingredients you likely have on hand.
- It’s easy to make and has a moist texture and buttery crumb.
- It’s a great way to enjoy fresh or frozen strawberries and a nice change from our usual banana bread.
This recipe has been sponsored by Challenge Butter.
Ingredients for Strawberry Bread
- Strawberries: Fresh strawberries add the best flavor to this bread however, you can use other berries. If using frozen strawberries, there is no need to thaw them; however, you’ll need extra baking time.
- Butter: Use a high quality salted butter like Challenge for the perfect texture (aka crumb) and great flavor. Challenge is made with just two ingredients, cream and salt so it provides consistent results.
- Flour: All purpose flour is the base of this strawberry bread, baking powder helps it rise, and sugar adds sweetness and just the right texture.
- Cream: I use half and half or light cream in this recipe.
You can add a sprinkle of white chocolate chips to the batter before baking if desired.
How to Make Strawberry Bread
This is an easy quick bread recipe packed with lots of strawberry flavor.
- Cream: Cream sugar and butter, add eggs and cream (recipe below).
- Mix: Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and fold in fresh berries.
- Pour: Batter into a metal pan and top with more berries.
- Bake: As per the recipe below and cool before slicing.
Pro Tips For Perfect Quick Bread
- If using frozen berries, toss them in the dry mix before adding them to the batter to keep them from sinking to the bottom.
- If using unsalted butter, add a bit of salt.
- Don’t over mix, or the bread will be too dense.
- Let the eggs come to room temperature before use.
Storage and Freezing
- Store strawberry bread in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 days.
- This bread freezes beautifully. Wrap whole loaves or slices in plastic wrap and freeze them for up to 4 months.
- Use strawberry bread to make this favorite bread pudding or French toast.
Our Favorite Quick Breads
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Strawberry Bread
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour + 1 tablespoon for dusting strawberries
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup salted Challenge butter (1 stick), softened
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs room temperature
- ½ cup half and half or light cream
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 ¼ cups chopped fresh strawberries divided
Glaze
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon milk or as needed
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease an 8×4-inch metal loaf pan.
- In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt with a whisk. Set aside.
- In a separate medium bowl, cream sugar and butter together. Add eggs, cream, and lemon juice. Mix well to combine.
- Add the dry mixture to the butter mixture and stir just until combined. Do not overmix.
- Set aside 2 tablespoons of strawberries for topping the bread. Toss the remaining strawberries with 1 tablespoon flour. Remove any excess flour and very gently fold them into the batter.
- Spread the batter into the baking pan and top with reserved strawberries.
- Bake for 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Remove from pan and cool on a wire rack.
Glaze
- Once the bread has cooled, combine the glaze ingredients in a bowl until smooth.
- Drizzle over the top of the bread and let set.
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Notes
- Ensure the butter and eggs are at room temperature.
- Avoid overmixing the batter, or the bread will be tough and chewy.
- The pan can be greased or lined with parchment paper. Use a metal baking pan for the best results.
- Be sure not to over bake the bread, a toothpick inserted in the middle should come out clean.
- Cool completely before slicing.
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Bread, Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
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What a great recipe. It is so easy to make and so Delicious. Very, Very Moist.
This recipe was so easy! The challenge was to remember getting butter and eggs to room temp. It is delicious. Family raved about it. I did double the glaze recipe. Have pinned as a favorite!
Lovely recipe! This recipe came in my email the day after I bought too many strawberries for a mixed berry cobbler. Talk about timely! I doubled the recipe so we could share with elderly uncle we make meals for every week. Thanks again Holly!
Perfect timing Dawn, so glad you loved the bread!
Can I use yogurt in place of cream
Hi Nancy, I have never tried. Maybe another reader has and can offer some guidance.
Why is half your recipe blocked out when i print?
I can’t say for sure as I just tested it and it printed okay for me. Perhaps if you refresh the page it could help!
It si Delicious
What a wonderful recipe! I made this bread earlier this week and everyone loved it – moist, flavorful, and beautiful. Will definitely be making this again!
Made this for a bake sale , it was a huge success. Eveyone want the recipe.
Any suggestions for High altitude? Like 6000?
I have not tried this recipe at high altitude so I can’t say for sure. Maybe another reader has some insights.
Really good! I live at 6,000 ft and this recipe worked with only slight adjustments (I used 1/2 the amount of baking powder) and baked for about 55 minutes. Very tender crumb and not overly sweet. This would be nice for Easter or Mothers Day brunch.
I have a lot of frozen strawberries on hand. Would these work as well?
Frozen strawberries can be used (no need to thaw) however you’ll need to add a few minutes of baking time.
Just realized my bread pan is 9×5. Should I decrease the cook time in this case?
Yes, a large pan will cook a little bit quicker.
Hello! Right now I don’t have cream, would it be a good idea to use whole fat milk instead?
I haven’t tried it with whole milk but I do think it would work. Canned evaporated milk would also be a good alternative.
Omgoodness I’ve made this 3 times in one week and shared the recipe with 2 friends! Hands down the best strawberry bread EVER!
So happy you love this recipe as much as we do, Cindy!
Help! I tried the strawberry bread recipe and it fell apart. It looked and smelled delicious until I took it out of the bread pan (which was greased) upon which fell apart into 4 big chunks. It appears to be done in the middle. I used a stonewear bread pan and used pam to coat the pan. What am I doing wrong?
As mentioned in the post and recipe notes, we had the best success with this recipe cooked in a metal pan. It didn’t bake up as nicely when we tested in a glass pan so perhaps that could be why. I hope that helps.
Did you maybe over stir? I fold my batter till almost completely distributed and then finish by folding in the strawberries. I find that most bread type batter turns out better with folding not stirring and only till mixed. Hope this helps :)
Well maybe earlier reviewer wasn’t having trouble baking fully due to pan. I am now on 75 minutes and center seems to be doughy and giggly, toothpick is not coming out clean. I can see this is going to fail.
Wasted time and ingredients
Sorry to hear that Jon. Did you use an 8×4 metal pan? We find that produces the best results. Another reader used a glass baking dish and found it needed close to 90 minutes to fully cook.
I baked this in a 8.5 in × 5.5 in × 2.5 in glass loaf pan and it took 70 mins. It came out perfect!
Thanks for letting us know! I am glad it worked so well for you.
This was almost my first “spendwithpennies” disaster, which would have been my fault. I baked the bread in a smaller Pyrex loaf pan, but it was not cooked in the middle after the allotted time. My bad! I cooked and retested over and over and was about to declare Uncle! when after 90 minutes, the toothpick in the center tested clean. The bread was DELICIOUS even after baking for what seemed like forever…
I really cannot wait to try it again … following the instructions … or maybe using a muffin tin? Thank you for another delicious recipe Holly!
So glad you were able to rescue it, Mo!
I used blueberries and strawberries and baked them in mini loaf pans. Gave out as gifts wrapped in wax paper with dried flowers as a finishing touch.
That sounds delicious Mindy, and a beautiful gift idea! Those are some lucky friends ♥️
Followed recipe as written except added more strawberries….lTerrific! Definitely a keeper!
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