Here are 20 easy quick bread recipes. You will find recipes for pumpkin bread, cranberry bread, zucchini bread, sweet potato bread, gingerbread, applesauce bread & many more great tasting varieties.
As you probably know, quick bread recipes use faster rising baking soda and/or baking powder (versus sandwich breads that use slower rising bread yeast). Quick bread recipes often create a sweet muffin-like “bread” that is used as a dessert or snack.
If you are looking for banana bread recipes (another type of quick bread), please visit Bread Dad’s Banana Bread Recipes section. That pages has recipes for blueberry banana bread, eggless banana bread, chocolate chip banana bread, pecan banana bread & many more.
List of Quick Bread Recipes (Oven-Baked Recipes & Bread Machine-Baked Recipes)
- Applesauce Bread (oven baked) – This easy quick bread is made with simple ingredients such as applesauce, brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Applesauce Cranberry Bread (oven baked) – This quick bread is a delicious combination of applesauce and fresh cranberries.
- Beer Bread (oven baked) – This easy quick bread is perfect for your favorite beer lover. FYI – I can’t be a real bread dad without a beer bread recipe!
- Blueberry Cornbread (oven baked) – This recipe creates a sweet & moist blueberry cornbread. It is perfect as a dessert or delicious breakfast snack.
- Blueberry Quick Bread (oven baked) – Your family will love this oven-baked blueberry quick bread. It also makes a great “flag cake” with blueberry stars and strawberry stripes.
- Bread Machine Apple Bread – This apple bread recipe uses chunky applesauce and chopped walnuts to create a fun, tasty & crunchy dessert.
- Bread Machine Cinnamon Bread – This dessert recipe creates a tasty cinnamon “quick bread” stuffed with chocolate chips. Made with baking powder/soda.
- Bread Machine Cornbread – A sweet & buttery northern-style cornbread.
- Bread Machine Cranberry Orange Bread – Cranberry orange bread is a dessert recipe loaded with tart cranberries and orange flavor. It is a “quick bread” similar to banana bread & pumpkin bread.
- Bread Machine Gingerbread – This bread machine gingerbread recipe is perfect for the holidays!
- Bread Machine Pumpkin Bread – A deliciously sweet pumpkin quick bread… made with a bread machine.
- Bread Machine Zucchini Bread – This bread machine zucchini bread is perfect as a snack. dessert or easy way to deliciously get rid of excess homegrown zucchinis!
- Cranberry Bread with Dried Cranberries (oven baked) – This quick bread recipe uses dried cranberries in order to create a sweeter cranberry bread.
- Cranberry Bread with Fresh Cranberries (oven baked) – This delicious “quick bread” is made with juicy fresh cranberries and is bursting with flavor.
- Pineapple Bread (oven baked) – This easy “tropical” recipe creates a great-tasting pineapple bread. Perfect for snacks or desserts.
- Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread (oven baked) – This easy sweet quick bread recipe makes a delicious Thanksgiving dessert.
- Pumpkin Cranberry Bread (oven baked) – This sweet dessert is a wonderful combination of pumpkin & cranberries. This is one of my quick bread recipes that is perfect for Thanksgiving, autumn festivals, etc.
- Pumpkin Pie Bread (oven baked) – This sweet “quick bread” tastes like a holiday pumpkin pie.
- Strawberry Quick Bread (oven baked) – This oven-baked recipe creates a delicious strawberry “quick bread” stuffed with strawberries and topped with homemade whipped cream.
- Sweet Potato Bread (oven baked) – Sweet potato bread is a tasty & orange colored snack or dessert recipe.
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Related Pages
- How To Freeze Banana Bread – This freezing information also applies to other “quick breads (such as pumpkin bread & cranberry bread).
- Why Did My Banana Bread Sink In The Middle – This page looks at how to prevent your banana bread and quick breads from sinking in the middle.
- Muffin Recipes – Muffins are mini quick breads!!
Quick Bread Questions
What are quick breads?
Quick breads are baked goods that use baking soda and/or baking powder to rise. Examples of quick bread recipes include banana breads, pumpkin breads, cornbreads, zucchini breads and beer breads. Quick bread recipes often create a sweet muffin-like “bread” that is used as a dessert or snack.
Do you use yeast to make quick breads?
No, most sweet quick breads recipes (such as banana bread recipes) use baking soda and/or baking powder as their leavening agents (and not yeast). Yeast is a much slower rising leavening agent and is used to make sandwich-type breads and not sweeter “quick breads”.
What are examples of quick breads?
There are many examples of quick bread recipes such as banana bread, zucchini bread, sweet potato bread, pumpkin bread, cranberry bread, cornbread, gingerbread and applesauce cranberry bread. You will find tons of delicious quick bread recipes on this website.
Is pumpkin bread a type of quick bread?
Yes, most pumpkin breads are a type of sweet “quick bread”. They use baking soda/powder and lots of sugar to create a sweet pumpkin-flavored & muffin-like dessert or snack. Pumpkin breads are a perfect quick bread treat for Halloween, Thanksgiving and “harvest-based” special occasions.
Is cornbread a type of quick bread?
Yes, most cornbreads are a type of quick bread. Like other “quick breads” recipes, most cornbread recipes use baking powder/soda as the leavening agent and do not use bread yeast. Cornbread quick bread recipes generally focus on either southern-style savory (non-sweet) cornbreads or northern-style sweet cornbreads.
What can I use in a quick bread?
You can use tons of different main ingredients to make unique quick breads. For example, you can use fresh fruit (i.e. bananas or strawberries), dried fruit (i.e. raisins or dried cranberries), nuts (i.e. chopped walnuts), chocolate chips, etc. There are hundreds of different types of quick breads such as banana nut bread, pumpkin chocolate chip bread, dried cranberry bread, blueberry bread, butterscotch chip banana bread and many many more!
What does baking powder do for quick bread?
Baking powder helps a quick bread to rise. Rather than using slowing rising bread yeast, quick breads use faster rising baking powder and/or baking soda as a leavening agent. The use of baking powder in a quick bread recipe results in a moist muffin-like dessert “bread” versus a drier sandwich-type bread. Baking powder also helps to reduce the overall time needed to make a quick bread (versus a sandwich bread) because there is no long wait for the yeast to rise. For more information on baking powder, you should read this Wikipedia article.
Can bread flour be used for quick breads?
Most quick bread recipes use all-purpose flour and not bread flour. All purpose flour is more often used to make sweet & moist baked goods such as muffins, cakes, etc. In contrast, since bread flour has more gluten, it is more often used for making sandwich-type breads.
Unfortunately, quick bread recipes made with bread flour tend to be more “gummy” & rubbery (as bread flour contains more gluten than all purpose flour). Therefore, I would suggest sticking to the type of flour called for in a recipe.
What makes quick breads quick?
Quick breads are quick because they use baking powder and/or baking soda and do not use slower rising bread yeast. This means that quick breads do not need any kneading and you do not have to wait for the dough to rise before placing it in the oven. You just mix the recipe ingredients and stick the quick bread in the oven to bake. Between prepping and baking, many quick bread recipes that use baking powder/soda take roughly 1:30 hours to finish. In contrast, breads made with yeast can take 3-4 hours to prep, wait for the dough to rise & bake.
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Reference Sources
- Wikipedia, Banana Bread
- Wikipedia, Bread Machine
- Wikipedia, Cornbread
- Wikipedia, Pumpkin Bread
- Wikipedia, Quick Bread
20 Quick Bread Recipes for Desserts & Snacks
Ingredients
- Flour
- Sugar
- Baking Powder/Soda
- See specific recipes for other quick bread ingredients (i.e. fresh cranberries, mashed bananas or pumpkin puree)
Instructions
- Please see the specific recipes in order to see the ingredients, settings and time required to make these quick bread recipes.
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