Banana Cranberry Bread

Cranberry sauce and mashed bananas blend deliciously with walnuts, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, and vanilla in this easy, moist holiday quick bread.

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 50 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins
• Calories: 292 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup shortening
• 1 cup cranberry sauce
• 3 mashed bananas
• 0.5 cup chopped walnuts
• 0.5 cup milk
• 0.5 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1.5 teaspoons baking soda
• 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
• 2.5 cups white sugar

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease two 9x5-inch loaf pans.

Step 2

Beat sugar and shortening together in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, then mix in bananas, cranberry sauce, milk, and vanilla.

Step 3

Whisk flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg together in a bowl; gradually stir into banana mixture. Fold in walnuts. Pour into the prepared loaf pans.

Step 4

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into centers comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes. Cool in pans for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack, and cool completely.