Description
This is a maraschino cherry bread recipe I got from my mother-in-law. It’s simple, delicious, and makes great gifts. Freezes well.
Ingredients
- 1 cup white sugar
- ¼ cup solid vegetable shortening (such as Crisco®)
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 (8 ounce) jar maraschino cherries, drained and juice reserved, divided
- ½ cup chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9×5-inch loaf pan.
- Combine sugar
- shortening
- eggs
- and salt in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until well combined.
- Mix flour and baking powder together in a medium bowl. Add flour mixture to shortening mixture in 2 or 3 batches
- alternating with maraschino cherry juice
- mixing batter well after each addition.
- Cut each cherry into 4 pieces; stir into batter with pecans. Spoon mixture into the prepared loaf pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean
- about 1 hour. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen and invert loaf onto a wire rack. Let cool completely.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr
Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins
Servings: 14