Blueberry Bread – The BEST Recipe!

This basic do-it-yourself blueberry bread recipe tastes like consuming an enormous fluffy blueberry muffin or a slice of blueberry cake!

The very best blueberry bread recipe

You’ll fall in love with the smooth and scrumptious texture of this blueberry loaf.

It’s certainly one of my favourite recipes to organize for firm, as a result of visitors all the time suppose it got here straight from the native bakery!

But the short bread is tremendous straightforward to make, with no bread machine and no oil required. Plus you should utilize recent or frozen blueberries.

This candy blueberry loaf is the proper wholesome breakfast, snack, or dessert.

You might also like this Blueberry Banana Bread

Step-by-step blueberry loaf video

Key components

Blueberries – You need to use both recent or frozen blueberries. Contemporary blueberries yield a loaf lighter in shade, however I feel the additional purple from frozen berries is sort of fairly in its personal proper.

Flour – The recipe works nicely with entire grain spelt flour, all goal white flour, or gluten free all goal flour. Use a meals scale for many exact measurements.

I’ve not tried almond flour, coconut flour, oat flour, or entire wheat flour right here and due to this fact can’t suggest them.

Sugar – Granulated white sugar provides you with the lightest, fluffiest baked good. Chances are you’ll substitute xylitol for an added sugar free recipe.

Should you swap the sugar for pure maple syrup or honey, the bread texture can be a lot denser however nonetheless tasty.

Oil – I like the buttery coconut taste of coconut oil right here. You might also go along with vegetable oil or melted butter.

For oil free blueberry bread, substitute the entire oil with three tablespoons of mashed banana or applesauce.

Different components – The recipe additionally requires salt, baking powder, baking soda, floor cinnamon, water, an egg or flax egg, and pure vanilla extract.

The right way to make blueberry bread

1. Preheat your oven to 350 levels Fahrenheit. Grease a 9 by 5 inch loaf pan nicely with oil or fats free spray. I wish to additionally line the underside of the pan with parchment paper, for straightforward elimination after baking.
2. In a big mixing bowl, mix all dry components and stir nicely. Add in all remaining components aside from the berries, and stir till simply evenly mixed.
3. Very gently, fold in all however a tablespoon or two of the blueberries. Unfold the batter into your ready baking pan.
4. Press remaining blueberries on prime. Optionally, sprinkle on a handful of shredded coconut, chopped walnuts, or mini chocolate chips as nicely.
5. Bake on the middle rack of the preheated oven for one hour, or till a toothpick inserted into the middle of the bread comes out principally clear.
6. Rigorously take away from the oven and let cool. As soon as absolutely cooled, go across the sides of the pan with a knife and come out the loaf.
7. Slice and revel in, or loosely cowl leftovers with a towel and let sit in a single day. Should you can wait, the style and texture are even higher the following day!
8. For optimum freshness, any leftovers after in the future ought to be saved in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 5 days. Or slice and freeze leftovers for as much as two months, and thaw or reheat earlier than serving.

Often requested questions

Can I take advantage of different fruit?

Be at liberty to vary up the flavour. Attempt raspberries, blackberries, chopped strawberries, chopped apple (as on this Apple Bread recipe), or a mixture of various fruits as a substitute of simply blueberries.

It’s also possible to add two teaspoons of orange or lemon zest together with the moist components if desired.

Will the blueberries sink to the underside?

Many blueberry baked good recipes, together with fast breads, truffles, and muffins, suggest coating the blueberries in flour to assist them not sink to the underside.

I by no means hassle with this pointless further step. As proven within the video above, the blueberries nonetheless keep fantastically in place.

Does the bread want frosting?

Benefit from the recipe plain or topped with almond butter or cream cheese for breakfast. Or add vanilla icing, powdered sugar glaze, or Coconut Butter for dessert.

Is the recipe vegan or gluten free?

Use oil and water or flax egg for an egg free and vegan blueberry bread. The loaf is already naturally dairy free.

It may be gluten free in case you select all goal gluten free flour. For greatest outcomes, I extremely suggest following the gram measurements given.

The recipe was tailored from my Carrot Bread and this Cranberry Orange Bread.

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