A simple quick bread with maraschino cherries in every bite. Don’t forget the almond cherry glaze on top this simple cherry bread!
Cherry Bread Recipe
Can you tell I’ve been in a “pinkish” mood lately? I bet you can’t tell, with the bright pink cherry bread staring at your here. 🙂 Just this month we’ve posted cupcakes and cookies that are very….well….pink! Kinslee’s loving all of these pinkalicious baked goods. I remember about 3 years ago when Kinslee was just starting to read on her own, we got the Pinkalicious books from the library. Have you seen them? They’re super cute. They’re so fabulous for little girls who love to be princesses, which fits my little Kinslee to a T. Those books were just what she needed to encourage her to pick up a book and read it on her own. She read them over and over. Then she read them a few more times. We even made her pink cupcakes with pink frosting to encourage her to read more.
Maraschino Cherry Bread
So when this pinkalicious cherry bread popped into my mind, I knew I needed to make it now. Yes, it would have been great at Christmas time, since maraschino cherries pop up all over the place at the holiday season. And it would have been so fitting for a Valentine’s Day treat, being so pink-y! But I decided to stick with our pink theme this past month and share this with you now. No waiting necessary!
Quick Bread Recipe
This quick bread is your traditional quick bread recipe. Sugar, milk, oil, egg, flour, salt and baking powder. I wanted there to be lots of cherries in each bite, so I used two jars of maraschino cherries. Drain the juice, but reserve about 1/3 cup of the juice for the glaze. Chop the cherries either in a small food processor or with a knife. We used our Ninja Express Chop for this. It worked like a charm and took about a total of 3 seconds. Gently fold these cherries into the batter and bake the bread in a 9×5 loaf pan for 50-55 minutes.
As with any quick bread or muffin, it’s important not to overmix the batter. It’s OK if there are still lumps or a tad bit of flour in the batter. It will all bake together so perfectly in the end.
Cherry Glaze
The glaze on top of the bread is a mix of powdered sugar, melted butter, the cherry juice you reserved from the maraschino cherries and some almond extract. The bread is good without the glaze, but the almond cherry glaze makes it over-the-top amazing!
My family each tested a small slice of this bread, then we put the rest in the freezer for a later treat. I’ll have to say that I ate a slice or two while it was frozen and I think I liked the bread frozen more than fresh from the oven for some reason. That makes it a deliciously cool treat for spring and summer!
If you love cherries, try our cherry hot chocolate, cookies, cherry almond cake and Amish cherry rolls!
Easy Cherry Bread Recipe
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 cup oil
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or almond extract)
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 jars maraschino cherries* (10 ounces each)
Glaze:
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 1/3 cup maraschino cherry juice
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium bowl, stir together the sugar, milk, oil, egg and vanilla. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir until just combined.
- Drain the maraschino cherries, reserving the juice for the glaze. Coarsely chop the cherries in a food processor or with a knife. Gently fold the cherries into the batter.
- Pour the bread batter into a greased 9"x5" bread pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-55 minutes. A toothpick inserted in the center of the bread should come out clean. Allow the bread to cool for 10 minutes, then remove the bread to a wire rack to cool completely.
- To make the glaze, combine the powdered sugar, melted butter, cherry juice and almond extract in a small bowl. Mix until it is smooth.
- Once the bread is cool, spread the glaze on top of the bread. Slice and serve. Freezes well!
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Oh my goodness, this looks AMAZING!!! I love pink, cherries and this is perfection! Pinning!
Wow this looks great! I posted my grandma’s recipe a couple months ago that’s very similar to this!
That looks so pretty!
What a gorgeous color! This cherry bread looks absolutely stunning!
mmm, this looks delicious! i love cherry bread 🙂
Hi!!! I’m so in love with this!!! I inmidiately thought “I need to bake it!”. But I was wondering how many cups or grams of cherries are needed. I have a big jar of cherries at home so I wanted to use them 😀
i’ve never seen cherry bread before. love the color!
This is so pretty! I love the idea of almond and cherry flavor together too. Thanks for showing us your Creative Ways!
Blessings,
Nici
Not only does the color catch your attention, but this bread sounds absolutely delicious!
This sounds so amazing, I love maraschino cherries! Definitely will try this soon 😀
Oh my! This cherry bread looks amazing!!!!!!! I wish I could make it right now!!! Thanks for sharing. So happy to share with my followers!
Such a colorful, fun bread for springtime. It looks so pretty too!
Love the color of this bread! Looks yummy too.
Could you make this cherry bread out of a cherry chip cake batter? My dad loves cherry chip cake, but it gets boring year after year. Is their a way that this recipe could be used with the box cake instead of actual cherries?
This was to die for!! Thanks 🙂 I added some mini chocolate chips to the batter.
OMG, that looks so delicious!! I love cherry chip and can’t wait to give this bread a try! 🙂
So pretty & pink….and I’m sure delicious, too!!
i soooo love it! even my mom loved it! (she’s diabetic, but when she saw the color and it smells yummy, she cant help it!)
Thank You! ♥
This bread is definitely pinkalicious and looks DELICIOUS! Can’t wait to make it for my girls – they will flip!
I love the looks of this bread! Perfect treat for the upcoming Valentine’s holiday!
The Cherry Bread is just awesome !!!! This is my second time making it with egg replacement. Just a question, the egg in the recipe, is it just for taste or is it a binding agent, cos if its just for taste then we can just avoid it to make a eggless Cherry Bread……… Thanks in advance
Quick question. Do you think this recipe would work with substituting applesauce for the oil?
This was amazing! My kiddos devoured it! We will be adding it in as a family fav! Thanks!
The bread itself was not my favorite. No flavor even with all the cherries but as soon as I made a glaze to cover bread, it was just ok. I appreciate you sharing this.
Do you think the flavor is better way almond or vanilla extract? Can I make this as muffins? Should it be made to be eaten hot out of the oven or the night before? Thanks!