Cooler weather brings out the inner baker in all of us. But not everyone is up to the challenge (or timeline) of a yeast bread. Enter the humble quick bread.
Quick breads are any bread leavened without yeast or using only eggs as the leavening agent. That’s generally baking powder and/or baking soda. Even if you’ve never heard the term, you’ve been eating some form of quick bread your whole life. Examples include cake, cornbread, beer breads, soda breads, biscuits and even cookies. Though we’d forgive you if you prefer to think of the latter two as their own separate and glorious edibles. Life’s too short for only two categories of bread.
And if you can make a boxed cake, you can make a quick bread. Whether you’re into classic banana or carrot, want to go basic PSL or feel like experimenting with cream cheese swirls and walnut streusel, put one of these fabulous fall-flavored quick breads on your table this week. You won’t be sorry.
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Healthy Pumpkin Gingerbread
Image Credit: Half Baked Harvest. Pumpkin purée adds moisture to this ginger quick bread with the cozy fall flavors of nutmeg, cinnamon and maple syrup.
Get the recipe from Half Baked Harvest.
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Apple Bread with Crumb Topping
Image Credit: Bake. Eat. Repeat. Making an entire apple pie is a big time commitment. Luckily, this easier and quicker bread version of apple pie exists.
Get the recipe from Bake. Eat. Repeat.
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Cranberry-Orange Banana Bread
Image Credit: Gimme Some Oven. Since oranges and bananas are available virtually year-round and you can make it with dried cranberries, you can make this cranberry-orange banana bread any time you crave it. But take advantage of the fall availability of fresh tart cranberries at least once a year.
Get the recipe from Gimme Some Oven.
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Caramel Cheesecake-Stuffed Apple Bread
Image Credit: The Cookie Rookie. How do you make Halloween staple caramel apples even better? Load them with carbs and tang by making them into a caramel cheesecake-stuffed apple quick bread.
Get the recipe from The Cookie Rookie.
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Carrot Bread With Cream Cheese Frosting
Image Credit: Love From the Oven. Harvested at their peak just before the last frost of fall, carrots combine with squash to make a carrot cake-flavored quick bread. If you can’t find zucchini in your area this time of year — it is technically a summer squash, after all — don’t worry. An equal amount of pumpkin purée is a fantastic substitute.
Get the recipe from Love From the Oven.
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Bacon-Cheddar Beer Bread
Image Credit: Brown Eyed Baker. Cheddar and bacon is a coupling for the ages. Join them in culinary matrimony by using a quality Oktoberfest beer in this savory cheddar-bacon quick bread.
Get the recipe from Brown Eyed Baker.
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Cream Cheese-Swirled Pumpkin-Banana Bread With Salted Maple Butter
Image Credit: Half Baked Harvest. This pumpkin-banana bread has two unexpected surprises: a luxurious swirl of zesty cream cheese to foil the fall spices and a final flourish of maple butter spread.
Get the recipe from Half Baked Harvest.
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Pumpkin Bread With Chocolate Chips & Pecans
Image Credit: Brown Eyed Baker. This extra-moist pumpkin bread would be perfection on its own. But extra-moist pumpkin bread with chocolate chips and pecans is what food bloggers’ dreams are made of.
Get the recipe from Brown Eyed Baker.
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