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This sweet cream cheese bread compliments the tart cranberries it’s loading with resulting in an amazing Cream Cheese Cranberry Bread! If you are looking for a new quick bread recipe that is perfect for the fall and Thanksgiving you have found it. It’s so amazingly soft and tender, plus quick and easy to make. I love a big slice with butter and a mug of coffee or for a quick snack in the afternoon!

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Cranberries. Love them or hate them? I’m kind of love them one time, pass on them another time. I love this Crock Pot Cranberry Pork Loin because of the savory flavors that don’t over power and then we have this every popular Cranberry Cream Cheese Dip that is HOT on Pinterest right now! And, let’s get real, we are never going to turn down some cookies, especially Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Why don’t we turn down cookies? Because they make everything better. For example when you are going through a funk like me right now. It’s bad. Real bad.

I don’t know if I’m stressed, overworked, or what, but I just can not find my groove. Maybe it’s just a serious case of PMS? Lovely lady things like that rock don’t they? I’m feeling tired, cranky and unmotivated to do pretty much anything and I’m hoping it changes real fast like.

It does not help winter is coming because that always makes things dull and dreary in my opinion!

Loaf of Cranberry Bread

Cranberry Cream Cheese Bread

So what do you do when you get in these funks? We all have them.

I’m envisioning a spa day with one of my best girlfriends, lunch out, coming home to a clean house and a full bank account. Ok, maybe that last part was just a little bit to hopeful! It would be nice though wouldn’t it? It would relieve a lot of the pressures we all face in our lives. I could totally make the spa and lunch day happen though couldn’t I?

Grocery List for Cranberry Bread

  • Butter 
  • Cream cheese
  • Sugar
  • Vanilla
  • Eggs
  • Flour
  • Baking powder
  • Salt
  • Cranberries (fresh or frozen)
  • Pecans (optional)

Then I enter the Mom guilt into the equation. That battle is a battle. I work full time so I don’t see the kiddos much during the week and then to think of leaving for a day on the weekend or heaven forbid the entire weekend like I’m doing this coming weekend I have anxiety.

First of all my hubs is left with the kids all weekend and he needs a break too so is that fair? Then, of course, the kids miss me, but really do they? Well, obviously a little bit but they are resilient and let’s face it sometimes Dad’s more fun!

I’m guessing there’s going to be a whole lot of pizza and hot dogs and mac and cheese in their future this weekend. Along with Ranger rides and going to Grandpa’s house for a sleepover with Auntie since she’s home. Really, I don’t think they are going to miss me at all!

Slice of Cream Cheese Cranberry Bread with butter

So maybe I think it’s far more of a big deal than it actually is! Apparently, I need to get my undies out of a wad and enjoy my weekend away at my photography workshop. Let’s focus on that!

How to make Cranberry Cream Cheese Bread

  1. Preheat the oven
  2. Grease a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan.
  3. With your mixer cream together butter, cream cheese, sugar and vanilla. 
  4. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after you add each egg.
  5. In a separate bowl combine the dry ingredients 
  6. Slowly mix into wet batter until combined. Fold in cranberries and nuts.
  7. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour 30 minutes 

And maybe I need a few more slices of this delicious Cranberry Cream Cheese Bread in my life to sweeten it up. I adore quick bread recipes and this one is delicious. The cream cheese adds a richness to it and it’s not crumbly at all due to this. It’s pretty much perfectly sweet and delicious with the addition of the tart cranberries bursting in your mouth!

Love cranberries? Here are more delicious cranberry recipes to try!

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Cream Cheese Cranberry Bread Loaf
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Cream Cheese Cranberry Bread Recipe
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
1 hr
Total Time
1 hr 20 mins
 

This sweet cream cheese bread compliments the tart cranberries it's loading with resulting in an amazing Cream Cheese Cranberry Bread! If you are looking for a new quick bread recipe that is perfect for the fall and Thanksgiving you have found it. It's so amazingly soft and tender, plus quick and easy to make. I love a big slice with butter and a mug of coffee or for a quick snack in the afternoon!

Course: Snack
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Cranberry Bread
Servings: 16 servings
Calories: 381 kcal
Author: Julie Evink
Ingredients
  • 1 c. butter softened
  • 8 oz package cream cheese, softened
  • 1 1/2 c. sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 c. flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 c. cranberries fresh or frozen
  • 1/2 c. chopped pecans optional
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In a large mixing bowl cream together butter, cream cheese, sugar and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
  3. In another bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt. Slowly mix into wet batter until combined. Fold in cranberries and nuts.

  4. One or two greased 9 in. x 5 in. loaf pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 60 minutes if using two loaf pans. If using one loaf pan bake for about 90 minutes. You can also use 4 mini loaf pans for 40 minutes.

Recipe Video

Recipe Notes

There are many comments about this not baking through etc. I have retested the recipe and it will bake through in one 9x5 loaf pan, but you can also use two if you'd like. Adjust baking time to about 50-60 minutes. It also works great in four mini loaf pans!

Nutrition Facts
Cream Cheese Cranberry Bread Recipe
Amount Per Serving
Calories 381
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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Comments

  1. This looks delicious. Would like to make it for the holidays. If I wanted to make this in a Bundt pan would I need to double the recipe?

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  3. Hello julia…:-) this looks so very delicious. Can’t wait to try this recipe. However..( feeling a bit of a nit wit here) but when using the fresh cranberries, i would need to cook them first before i add them to mixture?.. thank you.

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  4. Thanks for sharing this recipe! I made this as the bread and had some leftover batter, so I made a few muffins with the extra batter. I have to say, it’s a pretty good muffin recipe too. They’re easy to grab for breakfast on the go. I also chopped up an apple and added that to make it a cran-apple bread/muffin. I’m making a batch of muffins right now. I think this is going to be a go to cranberry recipe for a long time to come.

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  8. Hi – little confused here on the pans and baking time. Instructions state to bake one pan at 30 minutes and 4 mini pans at 40 minutes. I made this recipe and used one 9×5 bread pan and it was too much and needed to bake longer than 30 minutes. Can you please let me know what the correct amounts are?
    Thank you.

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  9. I bought all the ingredients today after looking at the ingredients and thought it would be delicious. An unanswerable Question came to me when I read the directions and the comments. I would like to backe it in muffin pans. Just wondering how long would you recommend baking them? Someone asked about cooking the cranberries. Cooked or raw. Thanks.

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    • I would recommend baking them at 350 and I guess it would take around 30 minutes, but I would check them at 25 to make sure. It could take up to 40 minutes. I haven’t tested it like this. This is just my best guess. And you don’t have to cook the cranberries.

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  11. Hi. I’ve made this bread two years in a row now. It’s delicious. I have one problem I need help with- please? It’s sooooo crumbly! Literally falls apart as I cut it- it’s very moist and tasty but sooooo messy. What am I doing wrong? It’s not over baked- perfect light golden brown. Not over mixed. No substitute ingredients on my end- done exactly to recipe. I’m so confused!

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  12. I love making sweet breads around the holidays and was looking for a good Cranberry bread recipe! Well I tried it and it is a winner for me! The richness of the cream cheese when you bite into it and them the tartness of the cranberries is just amazing and a mouth full ;of flavor! Love it and will be my recipe forever! Loved it and my husband did too!!!!!! I will be trying many more of your recipes. This recipe was also very easy!!!!! THANKS YOU FOR MAKING MY HOLIDAYS!!!!!

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  13. This was fantastic ! I made it in one 9×5 loaf pan and it turned out great. Baked it for 1h45 and covered with aluminium paper after 60 mins to avoid burning the top. My mother has been raving about it nonstop.
    Yum!

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