This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our privacy policy.
Use the last of the sweet summer berries to make Fresh Strawberry Bread. This moist, flavorful bread is a dream for breakfast when lightly toasted and smeared with a bit of cream cheese.
If you’re looking for a way to use up that last stash of summer strawberries, I’ve got you covered with this Fresh Strawberry Bread.
Although Ohio strawberries were kind of disappointing this year due the weather, we were able to get our hands on some beautiful, sweet berries from a you-pick farm that had really great irrigation. Apparently this makes all the difference when Mother Nature decides it’s going to rain almost every single day for the entire month of June.
THE BEST STRAWBERRY BREAD RECIPE
Believe it or not, I have not always been a blogger.
Before I started My Baking Addiction and for several years after, I was a middle school teacher.
Having a teachers’ lounge to deposit leftover baked goods was convenient and had the unintended side effect of making it widely known that I had started a baking blog.
Once MBA became common knowledge among my fellow teachers, they frequently sought me out to make their cakes, cupcakes and even search for recipe ideas.
This is how Fresh Strawberry Bread was born. A coworker wondered if I had recommendations for a strawberry quick bread recipe she could serve to guests coming into town for her son’s wedding.
At the time I had never made strawberry bread. But of course I was compelled to get into the kitchen and start experimenting.
After a little tinkering and a bit of trial and error, I had a fantastic Fresh Strawberry Bread recipe on my hands.
This quick bread is super moist, dense in just the right away, and bursting with sweet strawberry flavor.
TIPS FOR MAKING STRAWBERRY BREAD
- Use a mixture of butter and cream cheese plus buttermilk for tang
- Use smaller, sweeter strawberries
- Gently fold in the berries
- Enjoy toasted with cream cheese!
Strawberries and cream cheese are paired together so often for a reason: their flavors mesh perfectly! Just try Strawberry Cheesecake Fluff or Strawberry Cream Cheese Tart if you don’t believe me.
To get that same perfect combo of sweet and tangy in this Fresh Strawberry Bread recipe, I like to use a combination of butter and cream cheese. I also use buttermilk (or buttermilk substitute) for the liquid in the recipe.
When shopping for strawberries for this bread, look for smaller berries if you can. These smaller strawberries are usually sweeter and more flavorful than super large strawberries. They’ll make your bread even better!
When it comes time to add the strawberries to the batter, set aside your electric mixer and reach for a spatula to gently fold them in by hand. This will keep them from turning to mush; we want to see chunks of strawberries in the baked bread!
Feel free to enjoy Fresh Strawberry Bread in any way you like, but I recommend one way in particular:
Lightly toasted and smeared with whipped cream cheese.
Trust me, it’s summery heaven in a single bite!
Fresh Strawberry Bread
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 ounces cream cheese softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon Kosher salt
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 1 ½ cups fresh strawberries rinsed, dried and chopped
Instructions
- Grease and flour a 9x5 inch loaf pan. Preheat oven to 350°F.
- With electric mixer cream butter, sugar and cream cheese until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time. Mix in vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Blend flour mixture with butter mixture just until blended. Add buttermilk and only stir until just combined; do not over mix.
- Carefully fold in strawberries. Dough mixture will be thick.
- Bake for 50 to 60 minutes.
Video
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Hi Jamie,
I made two loaves of this the other day. I didn’t have buttermilk on hand so I substituted plain yogurt in one loaf and sugar-free fat-free vanilla pudding in the other. I thought the yogurt loaf came out better but both were delicious! Thank you for your wonderful recipes and blog. I frequent your site often. :)
This looks so delicious I wish I could just snap my fingers and make it appear. It is on my top list of things to try!
This is the first recipe I’ve tried from your blog and it was delicious. Had to use yogurt instead of buttermilk though…still turned out nice!
Gorgeous! I can’t wait to try it — looks like a perfect weekend breakfast treat!
great bread!!! my roommate and I JUST finished the whole loaf within two days!! It took a lot longer to cook than the recipe said but I’m in an apartment with old appliances… could be a multiple of factors here! Thanks for the great recipe!
It’s funny your coworkers didn’t know about your blog until recently, as I haven’t really made mine public knowledge either. If they actually do find it somehow, it’ll just be a “this is your life” of things I’ve brought in for all of them.
Seeing as your blog is one of my favorites, and I’ve stock piled many of your recipes, I’m glad I found it before they did. It’s given me more time to recreate some of your goodies!
I love the idea of a strawberry quick bread – yum!
New to blogging and found your site. Love love love your pictures, and your food. I am so going to make this bread. The strawberries in Santa Cruz are to die for and I always have extra. Thanks for sharing and thank you for your blog. Love it!!!!
I was so excited about this bread, but it oozed out all over the bottom of my stove. I followed everything as written, I’m not sure what happened…
Amy-
That is so weird, I have made this twice now without any oozing…I wonder what happened! I hope it didn’t make too much of a mess!
-Jamie
amy,
you probably mixed the bread TOO much before baking… if the bread is too aerated the baking soda and baking powder goes crazy! Hope this helps!
Liz
Thank you so much for the inspiration. I now need to go get some strawberries and give this bread a try :) It sounds wonderful! (love your blog, be proud)