A simple quick sweet cherry bread recipe with maraschino cherries in every bite. A pink bread perfect for Valentine’s Day!
I love this time of the year because there are so many “little” holidays that allow me to get creative in the kitchen with some themed recipes. Over the weekend I decided to make a sweet treat that looks and tastes like Valentine’s Day and it was a hit with the whole family.
Sweet Cherry Bread
Free printable recipe here.
Ingredients:1 3/4 cup flour
1 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
2 large eggs
1/2 cup oil
1 tsp Vanilla extract
1 10-ounce jar maraschino cherries
Cream Cheese frosting – make your own or buy a canister
1 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
2 large eggs
1/2 cup oil
1 tsp Vanilla extract
1 10-ounce jar maraschino cherries
Cream Cheese frosting – make your own or buy a canister
Directions:1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare bread baking pan.
2. In a large mixing bowl combine flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt. Mix completely.
3. In a medium mixing bowl combine oil, eggs, and vanilla extract. Mix well.
4. Slowly pour oil mixture into the dry ingredients and mix well.
5. Drain cherries from jar, making sure to keep the cherry juice. Pour juice into batter and mix well. Hello pink batter! Make sure to keep a few cherries and about 4 TBSP juice for frosting and topping.
6. Rough chop the cherries and coat with about 3 TBSP flour, this will help those cherries from sinking in your batter.
7. Fold in cherries to the bread batter.
8. Pour batter into bread pan.
9. Bake cherry bread for 40-45 minutes.
10. Once baked completely, let cool.
11. Either make your frosting or open that canister you bought. Add 4 TBSP to frosting and mix well. Frost bread once completely cooled.
12. Top with a few cherries and sprinkles for extra decorations!
13. Enjoy!!!
This is a really sweet bread but such a treat for Valentine’s Day. Could be considered a cake because of the frosting. One thought I had was not adding the frosting so it would be more like a breakfast bread to enjoy with some coffee or tea. Either way, this bread is so moist and flavorful with the addition of the cherry juice and cherries. Yummy!! A must try that will have the whole family asking for more!
I really love this incredible recipe to make Sweet Cherry Bread! It is so pretty and a really good dessert to have for Valentine's Day! I make my Valentine Bark every year, and my decorated sugar cookies!
I love the color of this bread, perfect for the Valentines Day breakfast. I have never cooked with cherry like this so this shall be fun.
I don't have a fav I'm thinking this could be it!! I love the ingredients and want to try it!!! and with cream cheese frosting, too!
This is so pretty and looks scrumptious! I wish I had some of this bread right now.
They look like cupcakes in disguise! Which is fine by me, I might be able to sneak them past the wife this way!
This looks so good, that I'm definitely going to try to make it for my family. Thanks so much for sharing this recipe
This looks so good! I bet my 5 year old would have fun making a pink cake with me.
My kids were just asking to bake today, and I have all these ingredients on hand. Looks like we will have a yummy valentines day treat tomorrow!
Yum! If only I liked baking, because I want to eat this!