VEGAN CIDER BREAD WITH BLUEBERRIES

Vegan cider bread with blueberries is our luxurious weekend breakfast bread. It’s super soft with an incredibly crispy crust. You can use any berries you want to, or try it without! Either way, it’s a very delicious bread and a great way to start the day.

This recipe is based on the honey beer butter recipe by Halfbakedharvest (the updated version is in her cookbook). First I tried beer bread as well, but my kids didn’t like it at all..perhaps I used a wrong kind of beer because the beer flavor was actually pretty strong 🙂 Update March 18th: after two days of baking the beer bread the beer flavor is gone and the bread tastes pretty yummy. So I think I’m giving beer bread another chance!

Using apple cider instead of beer was a safe choice and it was a huge success! Both beer and apple cider make the batter really bubbly and the texture of the bread is very fluffy.

What makes the bread really scrumptious is vegan butter on top of the bread. When the butter melts in the oven, it forms an amazing crunchy crust keeping the bread inside very soft. Although I’m not the biggest fan of vegan butter, sometimes it brings just the perfect luxurious flavor to a simple bread.

Happy Sunday ♥

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Vegan cider bread with blueberries

This luxurious soft and fluffy bread with a crispy crust is a lovely weekend breakfast or weekday treat. I used a loaf pan of ~10 inches x 3,5 inches (25 cm x 9 cm) inner measure.

Prep Time5 mins

Cook Time55 mins

Total Time1 hr

Cuisine: vegan

Keyword: blueberries, bread, cider, vegan bread

Author: Tiina from My Berry Forest

Ingredients

Cider bread with blueberries

• oil for greasing the loaf pan
• 3 cups all purpose flour (~360 g)
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 3 tsp Ceylon cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 cups maple syrup (or other liquid sweetener of choice)
• 1 + 1/3 cups cider (I used dry apple cider)
• 1 cup berries of choice (I used blueberries and raspberries)
• 1 tbsp potato starch or flour
• 2 oz (about 6 tbsp) vegan butter

Berry cream

• Whip plant-based cream and add berries and sweetener if you wish.

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 356 F / 180 C and grease your loaf pan.
• Mix dry ingredients: flour, cinnamon, baking powder and salt.
• Pour syrup and cider to the dry ingredients and mix carefully until well combined.
• Mix berries with potato starch until berries are fully coated.
• Mix berries to the batter and pour the batter into the loaf pan.
• Add butter evenly on top of the batter. I usually add about 5 generous table spoons. No need to spread the butter on top as it melts in the oven.
• Bake in the middle rack of the oven for 50 minutes. Check with a toothpick and if not clean, keep baking for a few minutes at a time until the toothpick test comes out clean. My loaf is usually done in about 55 minutes. 
• Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing the bread.
• Enjoy warm with berry cream or just plain (it tastes yummy either way!)

Notes

Tip: place a sheet pan in the oven under the bread so that the melting vegan butter will drip onto the sheet pan instead of the bottom of the oven.

Note: I use apple cider which contains 4,7 % alcohol (the brand is Happy Joe, but any brand you like will work). The alcohol evaporates while baking, so this bread is safe for kids to eat! Of course you can use alcohol free cider too. If you are in Germany I think even Apfelschorle would work!