Orange Glaze Bread Recipe

This moist & flavorful orange cranberry bread is packed with orange zest and tart cranberries, topped with cinnamon streusel, and finished with orange glaze. It’s one of my favorite quick bread recipes to prepare because it always draws a crowd!

When I think of the fall season, many flavor duos come to mind, but no flavor combination is more delicious than orange + cranberry. I love tart cranberries paired with sunshine-sweet orange. Over the years I’ve shared recipes for cranberry orange muffins, cranberry orange Bundt cake, cranberry orange icebox cookies, and cranberry orange scones… and my classic cranberry sauce and these cranberry brie puff pastry tarts both contain a pop of orange flavor, too. All incredible, but nothing rivals today’s quick bread. It’s the original and I recommend making two loaves because trust me, it will disappear quickly!

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Craving plain cranberry bread? You can leave off the streusel and/or orange glaze. Same bake time and temperature. Or if you want to add some sparkle, try adding some sugared cranberries on top before serving.

Orange Glazed Cranberry Bread

Similar to banana bread and carrot cake, this bread was even more flavorful and moist on day 2. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love it warm out of the oven, but I especially enjoy it the next morning. It’s a perfect treat to serve guests because you can make it the evening before.

This is moist and tender orange cranberry bread with buttery streusel and a zingy orange glaze. It’s perfect for guests or with a warm cup of tea in the early morning or afternoon. See notes for freezing instructions.

I welcome easy recipes around the holidays. What I love most about quick breads is that they’re universally delicious and, best of all, they’re QUICK! Here are a few seasonal quick bread recipes to make next:

Easy And Delicious Glazed Orange Bread

Sally McKenney is a professional food photographer, cookbook author, and baker. Her kitchen-tested recipes and thorough step-by-step tutorials give readers the knowledge and confidence to bake from scratch. Sally has been featured onThisCranberry Orange Breadis incredibly moist, deliciously dense, loaded with orange flavor and juicy cranberries, and finished with a sweet orange glaze. Just 15 minutes to prep!

It took years of trial and error to get this cranberry orange bread recipe perfected. And I do believe I've done it!

This is an easy quick bread recipe that's perfect for the holiday season. It's simple to make and uses all your basic pantry staples.

Simple Orange Glaze Recipe

The texture is incredibly soft, it has just the right balance of sweet and tart, and the whole cranberries add a sweet burst of juicy flavor that's really hard to beat.

This is an easy recipe that everyone will love! It will have you looking forward to cranberry season every year! It's the perfect treat for fall, for Christmas brunch, or for any day you darn please.

This delicious quick bread recipe is really so quick and easy to make! Just a few minutes of hands-on time before it goes into the oven.

Orange Swirl Bread

This orange cranberry bread makes a great breakfast, snack, or dessert! I love to serve it as a sweet breakfast alongside a warm cup of coffee.

Room Temperature:Cranberry orange bread can be stored at room temperature in an airtight container for 2-3 days. Keep in mind that it will soften and get slightly gummy as it sits.

Freezer:To freeze this bread, wrap it tightly in plastic wrap followed by aluminum foil. Store in the freezer for up to 2 months. I recommend freezing without icing, then adding that before serving!

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Thawing/Reheating:To thaw frozen bread, simply let it sit in the fridge overnight. If you want to reheat it, you can warm it in the microwave for 10-15 seconds at a time or until the desired temperature is reached.

Homemade

You can! This recipe was developed using fresh cranberries, so those are recommended, but dried or frozen cranberries will work too if that's what you have on hand.

If you're using dried cranberries, I recommend adding them to a little hot water to soak for 10 minutes. This helps them plump up a bit for a little more volume and texture.

Lingonberry Bread With Orange Glaze

Baking with fresh cranberries can be frustrating, because the cranberries have a tendency to float to the top of the bread, meaning they're no longer evenly distributed throughout the loaf.

The best way to prevent this from happening is to toss the cranberries in a light coating of flour before adding them to the batter.

Alternatively, you can chop them into smaller pieces. Either one of these options work to keep the cranberries from floating to the top.

Orange Glazed Dried Cranberry Loaf

That change in color is simply a reaction between the acidity of the cranberries and the alkaline properties of the baking powder.

*The calories listed are an approximation based on the ingredients in the recipe card and a serving size of 1 slice of bread (one tenth of the loaf). Actual calories will vary.

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*Please be sure to see the post and the comments section for additional tips, substitutions, and baking variations. Our readers have provided several wonderful comments regarding changes they've made to this recipe that might be helpful for others. As of 9/25/23 we have added some of the information from the comment section to the content in the post, as well as, a couple of new photos.

Cranberry Orange Bread With Grand Marnier Glaze

Orange Bread with fresh orange glaze and infused orange syrup is the perfect citrus happy breakfast bread you have been waiting for. With delicious orange zest and a yummy texture, this orange bread is an easy to make and easy to love bread recipe- for breakfast and beyond.

Ooh, bread. Bread is like…my weakness. I can honestly tell you the last cruise I went on in the fall that I caved into all the available food but the worst was that french bread sitting on my table while I waited for dinner every night. It started out as one piece and by day 5 was like the whole basket and ready for more. I gained 4 pounds.

Gluten Free Cranberry Orange Bread With Orange Glaze

Bread is lunch, its a side dish to a dinner, its a dessert, its a breakfast. I can think of a 100 ways to fold that flour and a 100 things to put into it. Orange banana, orange cranberry, even orange and chocolate chips go delicious. All that said this is just a simple straight forward orange bread recipe so you can enjoy the delicious citrus in and of itself.

Now whether you love your bread on the side or front and center, this orange bread with delicious orange glaze icing is about the most perfect way to spend your next hour. Orange bread is not only easy to make but has just the right amount of ooey, gooey sticky glaze that tops what was already perfection into greatness.

In fact, this no fail orange bread recipe is just the exact one to get you motivated to make in the kitchen and because its a homemade bread recipe, you don’t even need to feel that guilty over chowing down.

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Orange Glazed Poppy Seed Bread Recipe

Maybe if you eat it in one sitting, but I say breakfast is the most important meal of the day and this does have oranges in it after all. I say bring on ALL the bread recipes for breakfast! Speaking of, you must try my Blueberry Cake Donut Recipe that has Lemon Icing!

This recipe may look intense with 3 separate cooking portions, the batter, the syrup and the glaze, but do not get overwhelmed.

You simply make the batter and while the bread is cooking, whip up the syrup. Once the bread is done and syrup is soaking into the bread, you can make the glaze.

Cranberry Bread With Orange Glaze

Do not overwhelm yourself with the process. In today’s busy world its easy to look at a recipe and say its too hard or too long, but this orange bread is totally worth the effort and so easy.

Bread Batter Ingredients: To get started, making this orange bread itself will take you just a few minutes. While this recipe does have oranges in it, you don’t need fresh oranges to make your bread- or your glaze. Zest and store bought OJ works just fine if you wanna whip this up quick- no judgement from me!

If you do prefer to create your own orange juice, I really am partial to California Oranges. I KNOW I live in Florida (for shame) but the big California ones are SO good.

Double Orange Bread

If you pick out some beautiful large oranges, you can also use them for fresh orange zest above and to create fresh OJ (below)! Just use

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