Georgia Peach Bread
An easy peach quick bread with fresh seasonal fruit that bakes up sweet, moist, and delicious. It’s like eating a fresh peach in bread form. Great for breakfast, snack, or dessert.
Servings: 12 servings
Calories: 185kcal
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups sliced fresh peaches
- 3 Tablespoons sugar
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ cup shortening
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 6 Tablespoons pecans finely chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Grease a 8-½x4-½x2-inch loaf pan.
- Place peaches and 3 tablespoons of sugar in a blender and puree until smooth. It should yield about 1 ⅛ cup peach puree.
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Set aside.
- In the large bowl of an electric mixer, combine the remaining ¾ cup sugar with shortening and cream well.
- Continue beating while adding egg and vanilla extract.
- Add peach puree then dry ingredients and mix until all ingredients are moistened.
- Stir in nuts.
- Spoon batter into prepared loaf pan and bake for 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool 10 minutes in the pan then turn out onto a wire rack and let cool completely.
Notes
FOR MUFFINS: Grease and flour a muffin pan. Divide batter equally between muffin cups, filling about ⅔ full. Preheat oven to 375°F and bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Nutrition
Calories: 185kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 16mg | Sodium: 79mg | Potassium: 79mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 89IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 16mg | Iron: 1mg
