Have you ever sat at a bar, reached over and grabbed a couple bright red, dripping in juice maraschino cherries to munch on? These preserved cherries are the perfect fruit for making maraschino cherry quick bread as they are full of flavor!
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Did you know the original maraschino cherries — sour marascas preserved in their own liqueur — are undoubtedly as old as the liqueur itself, and for centuries these ancestral maraschino cherries remained an European delicacy?
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The modern day maraschino cherry – neon-red and candy-sweet, was created by Ernest Wiegand, a University of Oregon food technologist.
Wiegand worked six years to come up with the American maraschino and to this day continues its reign atop sundaes and cocktails alike.
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Personally, I’ve never been a huge fan of the maraschino cherry except for when I go to Chick-fil-A and get a shake.
Something about that bright red cherry juice on the whipped cream gets me every time.
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This recipe for maraschino cherry quick bread is simple and easy to put together.
It packs a big punch of flavor and is a nice change to the traditional quick bread with banana and zucchini.
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Maraschino Cherry Quick Bread
Ingredients
Bread
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ⅛ tsp salt
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup buttermilk, room temp
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 1 tsp real vanilla extract
- 2 tsp almond extract
- 16-ounce jar of maraschino cherries, chopped (reserve the juice)
Glaze
- ½ tsp maraschino cherry juice
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 Tbsp milk
Instructions
Bread
- Preheat oven to 350F degrees
- Grease, line, and flour a 9x5in loaf/bread pan
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt
- In a large bowl, whisk together the egg and sugars until smooth
- Add buttermilk, oil, and extracts and whisk until smooth and incorporated
- In two parts, add the flour mixture to the wet mixture and mix until just combined and no more flour is visible
- Gently fold in chopped cherries until evenly distributed
- Pour batter into prepared pan
- Bake 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean from the center.
NOTE: After 45 minutes check the color. If it is browning too fast, cover loosely with a
piece of foil and continue baking until done. - Let the bread sit for 10 minutes before removing it from the pan to cool completely before adding glaze
Glaze
- In a medium bowl, whisk together powdered sugar, cherry juice, and milk together until smooth. There should be no lumps.
- Drizzle over cooled bread
- Slice, serve, and enjoy!
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